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The increasing use of Internet for human real world activities such as e-commerce, exchange of information, advertising and several other service make the question of trust a critical issue. Today, everyone pushes information inside the net so is not easy to base trust on some, centralized authorities. many people is investigating how trust can be obtained - in some cases inspiring their investigation on social behavior - starting from some judges one may have on some others. This paper analyzes this matter, modelling trust relationship by a oriented graph and discussing some metrics useful to calculate reputation of a node based on others trust him/her.
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Carchiolo, V., Longheu, A., Malgeri, M., Mangioni, G. (2008). Trusting Evaluation by Social Reputation. In: Badica, C., Mangioni, G., Carchiolo, V., Burdescu, D.D. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing, Systems and Applications. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 162. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85257-5_8
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