Fuzzy techniques for trust and reputation management in anonymous peer-to-peer systems: Special Topic Section on Soft Approaches to Information Retrieval and Information Access on the Web

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Aringhieri;Ernesto Damiani;Sabine De Capitani Di Vimercati;Stefano Paraboschi;Pierangelo Samarati

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy;Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy;Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy;Dip. di Ing. Gestionale e dell'Informazione, Università di Bergamo, Italy;Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, 26013 Crema (CR), Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are rapidly gaining acceptance among users of Internet-based services, especially because of their capability of exchanging resources while preserving the anonymity of both requesters and providers. However, concerns have been raised about the possibility that malicious users can exploit the network to spread tampered-with resources (e.g., malicious programs and viruses). A considerable amount of research has thus focused on the development of trust and reputation models in P2P networks. In this article, we propose to use fuzzy techniques in the design of reputation systems based on collecting and aggregating peers' opinions. Fuzzy techniques are used in the evaluation and synthesis of all the opinions expressed by peers. The behavior of the proposed system is described by comparison with probabilistic approaches. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.