A Novel Proposed Approach for Trust Calculation

Atul Saurabh and Swapnil Parikh

Abstract The world of internet provides many complex system and services. Many of these systems provide good quality of services which ends up in better user satisfaction. Other services/systems do not satisfy user s need. Some of the systems/services maintain user confidentiality and other simply violate or provides low quality of confidentiality. In this scenario, how a user can pick a service from service pool and how to rely on that is a big challenging task. Many methods are proposed for giving a numerical value for the so called goodness provided by the system/services. This numerical value gives a measure of system s trustworthiness. The ranking is one of the methods. These methods mainly rely on user s feedback and there is no role of measuring entity other than collecting the feedback. Feedback is a strong mechanism but suffering from a serious illness. Whether a user giving feedback is lying or not is a big issue. Simply working on the number of feedback is not enough for calculating the trustworthiness. Also calculating trustworthiness without concerning the system/service in consideration is also not fair. In this paper we are proposing a fair methodology for calculating the trust value of system/service where the system/service will also be given a chance for claiming. The calculated value is not biased towards the user only. Rather it gives weightage to each feedback received. Keywords: Trust, Multi Agent System

Title:	A Novel Proposed Approach for Trust Calculation
Author Name:	Atul Saurabh and Swapnil Parikh
Abstract:	Abstract The world of internet provides many complex system and services. Many of these systems provide good quality of services which ends up in better user satisfaction. Other services/systems do not satisfy user s need. Some of the systems/services maintain user confidentiality and other simply violate or provides low quality of confidentiality. In this scenario, how a user can pick a service from service pool and how to rely on that is a big challenging task. Many methods are proposed for giving a numerical value for the so called goodness provided by the system/services. This numerical value gives a measure of system s trustworthiness. The ranking is one of the methods. These methods mainly rely on user s feedback and there is no role of measuring entity other than collecting the feedback. Feedback is a strong mechanism but suffering from a serious illness. Whether a user giving feedback is lying or not is a big issue. Simply working on the number of feedback is not enough for calculating the trustworthiness. Also calculating trustworthiness without concerning the system/service in consideration is also not fair. In this paper we are proposing a fair methodology for calculating the trust value of system/service where the system/service will also be given a chance for claiming. The calculated value is not biased towards the user only. Rather it gives weightage to each feedback received. Keywords: Trust, Multi Agent System
Cite this article:	Atul Saurabh and Swapnil Parikh , " A Novel Proposed Approach for Trust Calculation " , International Journal of Emerging Trends & Technology in Computer Science (IJETTCS), Volume 4, Issue 1, January - February 2015 , pp. 047-050 , ISSN 2278-6856.
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