Reputation has been explored in diverse disciplines such as artificial intelligence, electronic commerce, peer-to-peer network, and multi-agent systems. Recently it has been a vital component for ensuring trust in web services and service oriented architectures domains. Although there are several studies on reputation systems as well as reputation models, there is no study that covers reputatio...

A reputation system assists people selecting whom to trust. The “all good reputation” problem is common in e-commerce domain, making it difficult for buyers to choose credible sellers. Observing high growth of online data in Hindi language, in this paper, we propose a reputation system in this language. The functions of this system include 1) review mining for different criteria of online trans...

This paper presents a distributed reputation and trust management framework that addresses the challenges of eliciting, evaluating and propagating reputation for web applications. We propose a broker framework where every user is associated with a reputation broker who collects for its users the reputation ratings about any web service. In return, a user provides its broker the service rating a...

Two kinds of peers’ relationship are usually considered for reputation management in P2P network. One of them is direct trust relationship that the reputation is got with two peers interacting directly; the other is recommendation trust that the reputation is got by recommendation of the third party. In this paper, we presented an improved trust model based on recommended in P2P environment. In...

this study used the partial least squares (pls) approach to examine the effect of corporate reputation on the customer loyalty of the food and beverages industry in nigeria. the data for this study were collected from the customers in kano state nigeria. out of 250 distributed questionnaires, 212 usable questionnaires were returned. before examining the effect of corporate reputation on the cus...

The Grid approach provides a vision to access, use, and manage heterogeneous resources in virtual organizations across multiple domains and organizations. This paper foremost analyses some of the issues related to establishing trust and reputation in a Grid. Integrating reputation into quality management provides a way to reevaluate resource selection and service level agreement mechanisms. We ...

Reputation systems have become an increasingly important tool for highlighting quality information and filtering spam within online forums. However, the dependence of a user’s reputation on their history of activities seems to preclude any possibility of anonymity. We show that useful reputation information can, in fact, coexist with strong privacy guarantees. We introduce and formalize a novel...

Two studies investigated the mediating effects of liking and attributions of motives on the relationship between a ratee's reputation and helpful behaviors and raters' reward decisions. During managerial simulations, raters evaluated individuals after watching videotapes in which the individual's reputation and helpful behaviors were manipulated. Results indicated an interaction effect between ...

Traffic safety applications on vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have drawn a lot of attention in recent years with their promising functions on car accident reduction, real-time traffic information support, and enhancement of comfortable driving experience on roadways. However, an inaccurate traffic warning message will impact drivers’ decisions, waste drivers’ time and fuel in their vehicles...

Firms need to continuously sense their business environment for being able to seize emerging opportunities and react against threats, such as loss of reputation. Corporate reputation is of particular importance as a valuable intangible asset. Thus, managing a firm’s corporate reputation as well as monitoring the reputation of its competitors may support sensing and seizing capabilities of a fir...