Reputation Bootstrapping for Trust Establishment among Web Services

  • Authors:
  • Zaki Malik;Athman Bouguettaya

  • Affiliations:
  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University;CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Reputation systems rely on past information to establish trust among unknown participants. Reputation bootstrapping — that is, assessing the reputations of newly deployed Web services (newcomers) — is a major issue in service-oriented environments because historical information often isn't present regarding newcomer behaviors. The authors examine different techniques for fairly and accurately bootstrapping newcomers' reputations in a service-oriented environment. They also present experimental results that evaluate the proposed techniques.