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Supporting trust in virtual communities
Abstract
At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk taking as a prominent feature of modern living. As members of society, we cope with these complexities and uncertainties by relying trust, which is the basis of all social interactions. Although a small number of trust models have been proposed for the virtual medium, we find that they are largely impractical and artificial. In this paper we provide and discuss a trust model that is grounded in real-world social trust characteristics, and based on a reputation mechanism, or word-of-mouth. Our proposed model allows agents to decide which other agents' opinions they trust more and allows agents to progressively tune their understanding of another agent's subjective recommendations.
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- Authors
- Abdul-Rahman, A., & Hailes, S.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Publisher
- IEEE Comput. Soc
- Published
- 2005-08-24
- Volume
- vol.1
- Pages
- 9
- ISSN
- 1530-1605 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2098685442
- Cited by
- 1,339
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 249.67
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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