Evaluating Trust in Peer-to-Peer Service Provider Communities

Ioan Petri; Omer Rana; Yacine Rezgui; Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi

The 6th International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration

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Evaluating Trust in Peer-to-Peer Service Provider Communities

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247125,
    author={Ioan Petri and Omer Rana and Yacine Rezgui and Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi},
    title={Evaluating Trust in Peer-to-Peer Service Provider Communities},
    proceedings={The 6th International Workshop on Trusted Collaboration},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={TRUSTCOL},
    year={2012},
    month={4},
    keywords={electronic markets service level agreements penalties rewards trust prisoner dilemma},
    doi={10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247125}
}

Ioan Petri
Omer Rana
Yacine Rezgui
Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi
Year: 2012
Evaluating Trust in Peer-to-Peer Service Provider Communities
TRUSTCOL
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247125

Ioan Petri¹^,*, Omer Rana², Yacine Rezgui¹, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi³

1: School of Engineering, Cardiff University, UK
2: School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University, UK
3: Business Information Systems, Babes¸-Bolyai University, Romania

*Contact email: PetriI@cardiff.ac.uk

Abstract

The increasing availability of Internet services has stimulated the development of peer-to-peer markets. These electronic markets have the potential for improving the efficiency of trading by reducing search and transaction costs. They also allow buyers to choose the best possible service for every transaction and interact with different sellers over time. In such markets, the establishment of trust is mandatory in order to ensure reliable market exchanges. We identify how trust can be established within a trading community, making use of pre-established Service Level Agreements between participants. The effectiveness of the approach in selecting trusted participants is evaluated via simulation.

Keywords: electronic markets service level agreements penalties rewards trust prisoner dilemma

Published: 2012-04-06
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.collaboratecom.2011.247125