Computer Science – Computers and Society
Scientific paper
2012-01-25
Computer Science
Computers and Society
Scientific paper
The last years have seen a growing interest in collaborative systems like electronic marketplaces and P2P file sharing systems where people are intended to interact with other people. Those systems, however, are subject to security and operational risks because of their open and distributed nature. Reputation systems provide a mechanism to reduce such risks by building trust relationships among entities and identifying malicious entities. A popular reputation model is the so called flow-based model. Most existing reputation systems based on such a model provide only a ranking, without absolute reputation values; this makes it difficult to determine whether entities are actually trustworthy or untrustworthy. In addition, those systems ignore a significant part of the available information; as a consequence, reputation values may not be accurate. In this paper, we present a flow-based reputation metric that gives absolute values instead of merely a ranking. Our metric makes use of all the available information. We study, both analytically and numerically, the properties of the proposed metric and the effect of attacks on reputation values.
Simone Antonino
Skoric Boris
Zannone Nicola
No associations
LandOfFree
Flow-based reputation: more than just ranking does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Flow-based reputation: more than just ranking, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Flow-based reputation: more than just ranking will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-683776