Reputation Bootstrapping for Trust Establishment among Web Services

摘要

Reputation systems rely on past information to establish trust among unknown participants. Reputation bootstrapping ȁ4; that is, assessing the reputations of newly deployed Web services (newcomers) ȁ4; is a major issue in service-oriented environments because historical information often isn''t present regarding newcomer behaviors. The authors examine different techniques for fairly and accurately bootstrapping newcomers'' reputations in a service-oriented environment. They also present experimental results that evaluate the proposed techniques.