A Reputation and Trust Management Broker Framework for Web Applications

  • Authors:
  • Kwei-Jay Lin;Haiyin Lu;Tao Yu;Chia-en Tai

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine;University of California, Irvine;National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • EEE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE'05) on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper presents a distributed reputation and trust management framework that addresses the challenges of eliciting, evaluating and propagating reputation for web applications. We propose a broker framework where every service user is associated with a broker who may represent multiple users. A broker collects for its users the distributed reputation ratings about any web service. In return, a user provides its broker the transaction rating after every transaction with any service in order to build up the reputation database on all services. In addition, brokers form a trust network where they exchange and collect reputation data about services. By delegating trust management to brokers, individual users only need to ask their brokers about the reputation of a service before any transaction with a server. The only overhead for a user is the responsibility to share the reputation feedback with its broker. We present the distributed reputation and trust management framework and show the performance of the system by simulations.