Trust management through reputation mechanisms
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Citations
A trust-based consumer decision-making model in electronic commerce: The role of trust, perceived risk, and their antecedents
PeerTrust: supporting reputation-based trust for peer-to-peer electronic communities
An integrated trust and reputation model for open multi-agent systems
A survey of trust in social networks
An evidential model of distributed reputation management
References
Learning internal representations by error propagation
Learning internal representations by error propagation
GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews
Social information filtering: algorithms for automating “word of mouth”
Formalising Trust as a Computational Concept
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Q2. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Trust management through reputation mechanisms" ?
In this paper, two complementary reputation mechanisms are investigated which rely on collaborative rating and personalized evaluation of the various ratings assigned to each user.
Q3. What are the two main categories of reputation systems?
The related work on reputation systems can be divided into two major categories : noncomputational reputation systems like the Better Business Bureau Online (BBB) and computational ones.
Q4. What is the common form of online community?
Online communities have traditionally been created in the context of discussion groups, in the form of newsgroups, mailing lists, or chatrooms.
Q5. How did the major marketplace providers tackle the problem of anonymity?
The major marketplace providers like eBay, OnSale, Yahoo, and Amazon, tried to tackle the problem by introducing simple reputation mechanisms.
Q6. How many users have made on average 16 transactions?
In this speciÐc simulation, the system reached equilibrium after 1603 ratings- in other words after each user has made on average 16 transactions.
Q7. What is the main reason why the mistreatment of newcomers creates an economic inefficiency?
the mistreatment of newcomers creates an inherent economic inefficiency, because the monetary or information transactions of the newcomers are undervalued.
Q8. How many ratings does it take to adjust the reputation of the user to his/her new performance?
as one can see in Figure 6, if the user is evaluated using Sporas, it takes less than 20 ratings to adjust the reputation of the user to his/her new performance.
Q9. What is the common way to measure trustworthiness in online marketplaces?
Although there are several kinds of possible frauds or deceptions in online marketplaces, the usersÏ trustworthiness is typically abstracted in one scalar value, called the feedback rating or reputation.
Q10. How did OnSale ensure the integrity of the bidders?
OnSale tried to ensure the biddersÏ integrity through a rather psychological measure : bidders were required to register with the system by submitting a credit card number.