The emerging Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm promises to enable businesses
and organizations to collaborate in an unprecedented way by means of standard web …

Trust and reputation are central to effective interactions in open multi-agent systems (MAS)
in which agents, that are owned by a variety of stakeholders, continuously enter and leave …

We introduce RATEWeb, a framework for establishing trust in service-oriented
environments. RATEWeb supports a cooperative model in which Web services share their …

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maintain repu 6,583,348 B. 62003 Hasegawa cal." tation data for web services to act as an …

QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented
architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately meet …

Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in
open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However …

One of the major challenges for electronic commerce is how to establish a relationship of
trust between different parties. Establishing trust is nontrivial, because the traditional …

With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, quality of
service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available service …

Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services
on a match based on criteria such as method signatures or service category. However …

Reputation systems rely on past information to establish trust among unknown participants.
Reputation bootstrapping-that is, assessing the reputations of newly deployed Web services …