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RATEWeb: Reputation Assessment for Trust Establishment among Web services

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We introduce RATEWeb, a framework for establishing trust in service-oriented environments. RATEWeb supports a cooperative model in which Web services share their experiences of the service providers with their peers through feedback ratings. The different ratings are aggregated to derive a service provider’s reputation. This in turn is used to evaluate trust. The overall goal of RATEWeb is to facilitate trust-based selection and composition of Web services. We propose a set of decentralized techniques that aim at accurately aggregating the submitted ratings for reputation assessment. We conduct experiments to assess the fairness and accuracy of the proposed techniques.

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Malik, Z., Bouguettaya, A. RATEWeb: Reputation Assessment for Trust Establishment among Web services. The VLDB Journal 18, 885–911 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00778-009-0138-1

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