Enabling Reputation Interoperability through Semantic Technologies

摘要

Reputation is a complex concept that has a major role in fields like social sciences, economics as well as computer science. Representing it as a simple form of property-rating or a vector of ratings strips it from its original notion and pos-tulation. It does not also facilitate the derivation of meaningful conclusions from it. This paper presents a semantic model for the representation of reputation as a complex object - a so called Reputation Object (RO). We also argue that using ontologies, and other semantic web technologies, to represent the reputation object model is essential to achieve reputation interoperability and portability between different domains. The contribution is a semantic design artifact for reputation representation that agrees with the theoretical and social formation and processing of reputation information. We also show some applications and how this ontology-based reputation model can be applied in a rule-based open reputation system. The work presented here has significant implications for e-market studies of knowledge sharing.