Adaptiveness and social-compliance in trust management within virtual communities

  • Authors:

  • Reda Yaich;Olivier Boissier;Gauthier Picard;Philippe Jaillon

  • Affiliations:

  • Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. E-mail: {yaich,boissier,picard,jaillon}@emse.fr;Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. E-mail: {yaich,boissier,picard,jaillon}@emse.fr;Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. E-mail: {yaich,boissier,picard,jaillon}@emse.fr;Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France. E-mail: {yaich,boissier,picard,jaillon}@emse.fr

  • Venue:
  • Web Intelligence and Agent Systems - Web Intelligence and Communities
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The success of virtual communities VCs relies on collaboration and resource sharing principles, making trust a priority for each member. The work presented in this paper addresses the problem of trust management in open and decentralised virtual communities. We address this problem by proposing an Adaptive and Socially-Compliant Trust Management System ASC-TMS adopting a multi-agent based approach. Our proposal relies on the joint use of trust policies and meta-policies, which allow VC members to exhibit adaptive i.e., in accordance with environment changes and socially-compliant i.e., in accordance with the collective policies specified by the community members behaviour. The experiments reported in this paper focus on the socially-compliant aspect of ASC-TMS. They aim at evaluating different policy integration algorithms.