A theoretical framework to consensus building within a networked social group is put forward. This article investigates a trust based estimation and aggregation methods as part of a visual consensus model for multiple criteria group decision making with incomplete linguistic information. A novel trust propagation method is proposed to derive trust relationship from an incomplete connected trust...

Obtaining user feedback (using votes) is essential in ranking user-generated online content. However, any online voting system is susceptible to the Sybil attack where adversaries can out-vote real users by creating several Sybil identities. In this paper, we present SumUp, a Sybilresilient online content rating system that leverages trust networks among users to defend against Sybil attacks wi...

Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems (LS-DSSs) are at the core of several Cloud services. These externalized services may run atop multiple administrative domains. While a client may trust the organization that provides a given Web service, a single server may belong to another organization that the client does not trust. The design of a Distributed Storage System is itself a challenging tas...

This paper describes XenoTrust, the trust management architecture used in the XenoServer Open Platform: a public infrastructure for wide-area computing, capable of hosting tasks that span the full spectrum of distributed paradigms. We suggest that using an event-based publish/subscribe methodology for the storage, retrieval and aggregation of reputation information can help exploiting asynchron...

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is the standard technique used to make a quantitative evaluation about the ecological sustainability of a product or service. The life cycle inventory (LCI) data sets that provide input to LCA computations can express essential information about the operation of a process or production step. As a consequence, LCI data are often regarded as confidential and are typica...

Growing concerns about the quality of aggregated biodiversity data are lowering trust in large-scale data networks. Aggregators frequently respond to quality concerns by recommending that biologists work with original data providers to correct errors 'at the source.' We show that this strategy falls systematically short of a full diagnosis of the underlying causes of distrust. In particular, tr...

In open settings, the participants are autonomous and there is no central authority to ensure the felicity of their interactions. When agents interact in such settings, each relies upon being able to model the trustworthiness of the agents with whom it interacts. Fundamentally, such models must consider the past behavior of the other parties in order to predict their future behavior. Further, i...

Trust is a good approach to explain the functioning of markets, institutions or society as a whole. It is a key element in almost every commercial transaction over time and might be one of the main explanations of economic success and development. Trust diminishes the more we perceive others to have economically different living realities. In most of the relevant contributions, scholars have ta...