A Survey of Belief Revision on Reputation Management

Reputation management is a process of tracking, reporting and reacting to an entity’s actions and other entities’ opinions about those actions. In practical world, as each action may have different effects, entities changing opinions towards each other is unavoidable. The belief on an entity is based on the entity’s reputation. In a reputation management system, the reputation of a certain entity may change according to different events, so changes the belief. Changing of believes is called belief revision. In this paper, we will make an brief introduction about belief revision models and their implementations in reputation management area.