trust. The first is known as the database service provider problem: A database owner wants a database service provider (DSP … applications it is desirable that nodes can join anonymously, but anonymity makes it easy to spread false reputation information. A … node that enters a P2P application network for the first time needs to trust the claimed observations of other nodes …

results into the real microcredit world.Next, this paper outlines the impact of microfinance on the income level of the poor …This paper mainly focuses on finding optimal strategies for the development of microfinance in Korea and on predicting … the impact of microfinance in the future.First, this paper reviews and assesses the impact of microfinance in Korea. I …

trials of microfinance offerings (Morduch 1998; Ferrari 2008; Hoque 2008). Financial dealings within this context are known … to be complex (Matin, Hulme et al. 1999; Rutherford 2002) and, despite the rapid growth of microfinance, these financial …

this paper, we present the FC reputation-based trust decision making methodology, for making reputation-based trust …In this paper, we present the FC direct trust value-based decision making methodology, for making direct trust value … at a future time slot. The direct trust value-based decision making methodology models the context specific nature of …

be the foundation for web intelligence in the future. Trust and Reputation help capture business intelligence through …The growing development of web-based reputation systems in the 21st century will have a powerful social and economic … services to achieve customer assurance in the distributed web-based Reputation Systems. The web-based reputation systems will …

existing proposed trust models. We also show that the different types of reputation along the three dimensions are interrelated …Trust between communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several methods … have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between communicating peers; all of which make use of …

access control. Trust can also be used to support service selection. Although certain elements of trust such as reputation …Trust is a concept that has been used in computing to support better decision making. For example, trust can be used in … has gained widespread acceptance, a general model of trust has so far not seen widespread usage. This is due to the …

communities offer enormous opportunities, they also present potential threats due to a lack of trust. Reputation systems provide a … feedback-based reputation systems help community participants decide who to trust and encourage trustworthy behavior, they also … proposes a decentralized reputation based trust supporting framework called PeerTrust, focusing on models and techniques for …

notion of trust is the concept of reputation within a community, with other peers or society in general. This is frequently …These two concepts of trust and reputation have assumed increasing importance in the information technology field. …This book aims to increase the level of understanding of the Trust and Reputation body of knowledge for service …

proposed as a method to establish trust among strangers. In a reputation system, a user who exhibits good behavior continuously … can build a good reputation. On the other hand, a user who exhibits malicious behavior will have a poor reputation. Trust … reputation systems in a decentralized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. To understand the problem, I define an abstract model for trust …