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This paper discusses the assessment of Web services trust. This assessment is undermined by the uncertainty that raises due to end-users’ ratings that can be questioned and variations in Web services performance at run-time. To tackle the first uncertainty a fuzzy-based credibility model is suggested so that the gap between end-users (known as strict) and the current majority is reduced. To deal with the second uncertainty we propose a probabilistic trust approach. A series of experiments are carried out to validate the probabilistic approach built upon probabilistic databases and a fuzzy-based credibility model. The results show that the probabilistic approach improves significantly trust quality. Future work consists of incorporating several credibility models into one probabilistic trust model.
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Saoud, Z., Faci, N., Maamar, Z., Benslimane, D. (2015). Web Services Trust Assessment Based on Probabilistic Databases. In: Bouajjani, A., Fauconnier, H. (eds) Networked Systems . NETYS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9466. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26850-7_27
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