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This paper investigates the problem of establishing trust in service-oriented environments. We focus on providing an infrastructure for evaluating the credibility of raters in a reputation-based framework that would enable trust-based Web services interactions. The techniques we develop would aid a service consumer in assigning an appropriate weight to the testimonies of different raters regarding a prospective service provider. The experimental analysis show that the proposed techniques successfully dilute the effects of malicious ratings.
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Malik, Z., Bouguettaya, A. (2007). Evaluating Rater Credibility for Reputation Assessment of Web Services. In: Benatallah, B., Casati, F., Georgakopoulos, D., Bartolini, C., Sadiq, W., Godart, C. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2007. WISE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76993-4_4
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