Analyzing communities vs. single agent-based Web services: Trust perspectives

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 7th International Conference on Services Computing, SCC 2010

Publication Date

10-20-2010

Abstract

Gathering functionally similar agent-based Web services into communities has been proposed and promoted on many occasions. In this paper, we compare the performance of these communities with self-managed, single agent-based Web services from trust perspective. To this end, we deploy a reputation model that ranks communities and Web services with respect to different reputation parameters. By relating the parameters, we extend our discussion to analyze the beneficial cases and incentives for a single Web service to join a community even if this joining could negatively impact other parameters. Besides theoretical discussions of this analysis, we discuss the system implementation along with simulations that depict diverse parameters and system performance. © 2010 IEEE.

ISBN

9780769541266

Publisher

IEEE

First Page

194

Last Page

201

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

Community of agent-based Web service, Incentives, Reputation, Trust

Scopus ID

77957929520

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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