NSPW '97 Proceedings of the 1997 workshop on New security paradigms
REGRET: reputation in gregarious societies
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
The Eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in P2P networks
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
A reputation system for peer-to-peer networks
NOSSDAV '03 Proceedings of the 13th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
A Computational Model of Trust and Reputation for E-businesses
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
PeerTrust: Supporting Reputation-Based Trust for Peer-to-Peer Electronic Communities
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Trust management with delegation in grouped peer-to-peer communities
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
PowerTrust: A Robust and Scalable Reputation System for Trusted Peer-to-Peer Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Heterogeneous network-based trust analysis: a survey
ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter
Contextual Trust Aided Enhancement of Data Availability in Peer-to-Peer Backup Storage Systems
Journal of Network and Systems Management
A trust prediction approach capturing agents' dynamic behavior
IJCAI'11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Second international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume Volume Three
From credit and risk to trust: towards a credit flow based trust model for social networks
Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
Trust beyond reputation: A computational trust model based on stereotypes
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems
MATRI: a multi-aspect and transitive trust inference model
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web
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Trust plays important roles in diverse decentralized environments, including our society at large. Computational trust models help to, for instance, guide users' judgements in online auction sites about other users; or determine quality of contributions in web 2.0 sites. Most of the existing trust models, however, require historical information about past behavior of a specific agent being evaluated - information that is not always available. In contrast, in real life interactions among users, in order to make the first guess about the trustworthiness of a stranger, we commonly use our "instinct" - essentially stereotypes developed from our past interactions with "similar" people. We propose StereoTrust, a computational trust model inspired by real life stereotypes. A user forms stereotypes using her previous transactions with other agents. A stereotype contains certain features of agents and an expected outcome of the transaction. These features can be taken from agents' profile information, or agents' observed behavior in the system. When facing a stranger, the stereotypes matching stranger's profile are aggregated to derive his expected trust. Additionally, when some information about stranger's previous transactions is available, StereoTrust uses it to refine the stereotype matching. According to our experiments, StereoTrust compares favorably with existing trust models that use different kind of information and more complete historical information. Moreover, because evaluation is done according to user's personal stereotypes, the system is completely distributed and the result obtained is personalized. StereoTrust can be used as a complimentary mechanism to provide the initial trust value for a stranger, especially when there is no trusted, common third parties.