On the Modeling of Honest Players in Reputation Systems

  • Authors:
  • Qing Zhang;Ting Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCSW '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The effectiveness of reputation-based trust management fundamentally relies on the assumption that an entity’s future behavior may be predicted based on its past behavior. Though many reputation-based trust schemes have been proposed, they can often be easily exploited, as an attackermay adapt its behavior and make the above assumption invalid. In this paper, we build a statistic model for honest entities in decentralized systems, which serves as a profiling tool to identify suspicious entities. It can be combined with existing trust schemes to ensure that they are applied to entities whose transaction records are consistent with thestatistic model. This approach limits the manipulation capability of adversaries, and thus can greatly improve the quality of reputation-based trust assessment.