Abstract
An increasing number of dynamic software evolution approaches is commonly based on integrating or utilising new pieces of software. This requires resolution of issues such as ensuring awareness of newly available software pieces and selection of most appropriate software pieces to use. Other chapters in this book discuss dynamic software evolution focusing primarily on awareness, integration and utilisation of new software pieces, paying less attention on how selection among different software pieces is made. The selection issue is quite important since in the increasingly dynamic software world quite a few new software pieces occur over time, some of which being of lower utility, lower quality or even potentially harmful and malicious (for example, a new piece of software may contain hidden spyware, or it may be a virus). In this chapter, we describe how computational trust and reputation can be used to avoid choosing new pieces of software that may be malicious or of lower quality. We start by describing computational models of trust and reputation, and subsequently we apply them in two application domains: firstly, in quality assessment of open source software, discussing the case where different trustors have different understandings of trust and trust estimation methods, and secondly, in protection of open collaborative software, such as Wikipedia.
More and more software is reused, mixed and mingled. How to obtain a trustworthy software mix?
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FOAF (Friend of a Friend) is a project devoted to linking people and information using the Web. The FOAF vocabulary is a machine-readable ontology describing persons, their activities and their relations to other people and objects, which is defined using RDF and OWL technologies.
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Seigneur, JM., Dondio, P. (2011). Trust and Reputation for Successful Software Self-organisation. In: Di Marzo Serugendo, G., Gleizes, MP., Karageorgos, A. (eds) Self-organising Software. Natural Computing Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17348-6_8
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