Rater Credibility Assessment in Web Services Interactions

  • Authors:
  • Zaki Malik;Athman Bouguettaya

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA 24061;CSIRO ICT Center, Canberra, Australia

  • Venue:
  • World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of establishing trust in service-oriented environments. The focus is on providing an infrastructure for evaluating the credibility of raters in a reputation-based framework that would enable trust-based Web services interactions. The techniques we develop aid a service consumer in assigning an appropriate weight to the testimonies of different raters regarding a prospective service provider. The experimental analysis show that the proposed techniques successfully dilute the effects of malicious ratings, thereby facilitating accurate and fair assessment of the providers' reputations.