Publication detail

Evidence processing and privacy issues in evidence-based reputation systems

CVRČEK, D., MATYÁŠ, V., PATEL, A.

Original Title

Evidence processing and privacy issues in evidence-based reputation systems

Type

journal article - other

Language

English

Original Abstract

Issues related to processing of evidence in evidence-based reputation systems, with a particular concern for user privacy, are discussed in our paper. The novel idea of evidence-based reputation (or trust) systems is that such systems do not rely on an objective knowledge of user identity. One has instead to consider possible privacy infringements based on the use of data (evidence) about the previous behaviour of entities in the systems. We provide a brief introduction to evidence-based trust/reputation systems, as well as to the privacy issues, addressing the common problem of many papers that narrow the considerations of privacy to anonymity only. We elaborate on the concept of pseudonymity through aspects of evidence storing and processing. This, together with a consideration of current work on trust models, leads to our specification of requirements for the trust model for evidence-based systems supporting pseudonymity.

Keywords

evidence processing, privacy, pseudonymity, trust model

Authors

CVRČEK, D., MATYÁŠ, V., PATEL, A.

RIV year

2005

Released

30. 1. 2005

ISBN

0920-5489

Periodical

Computer Standards & Interfaces

Year of study

27

Number

5

State

Kingdom of the Netherlands

Pages from

533

Pages to

545

Pages count

13

BibTex

@article{BUT46690,
  author="Daniel {Cvrček} and Václav {Matyáš} and Ahmed {Patel}",
  title="Evidence processing and privacy issues in evidence-based reputation systems",
  journal="Computer Standards & Interfaces",
  year="2005",
  volume="27",
  number="5",
  pages="533--545",
  issn="0920-5489"
}