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Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'05)
A Trust Management Model for Virtual Communities
Shanghai, China
September 21-September 23
ISBN: 0-7695-2432-X
Meng Kui, Fudan University
Wang Yue, Fudan University
Zhang Xu, Fudan University
Xiao Xiaochun, Fudan University
Zhang Gengdu, Fudan University

Virtual community is becoming a significant component in today?s world of open, decentralized networks. Trust management mechanism is crucial to fertilize the development of the virtual community. After the analysis of the features of virtual community, and various approaches for trust management model, we present a novel trust management model for virtual communities which depends on both process-based and institutional-based trust production. We propose some effective methods to address or alleviate some typical problems in virtual community trust management, such as the feedback incentive problem and malicious or false feedback problem. Our approach satisfies the time-dependence, history-dependence, and subjectivity properties of trust, especially the temporal feature of trust, and is suitable to the virtual community.

Citation:
Meng Kui, Wang Yue, Zhang Xu, Xiao Xiaochun, Zhang Gengdu, "A Trust Management Model for Virtual Communities," cit, pp.741-745, Fifth International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT'05), 2005
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