On-line platforms foster the communication capabilities of the Internet to develop large-scale
influence networks in which the quality of the interactions can be evaluated based on trust …

Background The reputation system has been designed as an effective mechanism to reduce
risks associated with online shop** for customers. However, it is vulnerable to rating fraud …

Trust and reputation systems represent a significant trend in decision support for Internet
mediated service provision. The basic idea is to let parties rate each other, for example after …

Trust management has received a lot of attention recently as it is an important component of
decision making for electronic commerce, Internet interactions and electronic contract …

There are currently very few practical methods for assessing the quality of resources or the
reliability of other entities in the online environment. This makes it difficult to make decisions …

This paper motivates and describes the notion of mobile ad-hoc information systems. Such a
system consists of a decentralized and self-organizing network of autonomous, mobile …

Reputable users are valuable assets of a web site. We focus on user reputation in a
comment rating environment, where users make comments about content items and rate the …

The active growth of Internet-based applications such as social networks and e-commerce
websites leads people to generate a tremendous amount of opinions and reviews about …

(57) ABSTRACT A method of displaying a user interface to harvest feedback information
pertaining to transactions facilitated by a com puterized transaction facility includes the …

The issue of certificate revocation in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) where there are no
on-line access to trusted authorities, is a challenging problem. In wired network …