Trust Modeling for Opinion Evaluation by Coping with Subjectivity and Dishonesty

摘要

1 Research ProgramOur research is within the subfield of modeling trust and reputationin multi-agent systems for online communities.Specifically,in an online community involving users and entities,users provide opinions (ratings) to entities.For each user,weare interested in addressing two problems:·how to accurately model the reputation of entities by aggregatingopinions from all the users (advisors);·how to cope with the dishonesty of an advisor in providingopinions as well as her subjectivity difference withthe user.