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http://dx.doi.org/10.4218/etrij.10.0209.0354

Personalized EigenTrust with the Beta Distribution

Choi, Dae-Seon (Software Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Jin, Seung-Hun (Software Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Youn-Ho (Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Park, Yong-Su (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hanyang University)

Publication Information

ETRI Journal / v.32, no.2, 2010 , pp. 348-350 More about this Journal

Abstract

This letter presents an enhancement of EigenTrust. Using the beta distribution, local trust values can be more correctly evaluated. Simulation shows that the proposed scheme calculates the local trust more correctly by up to 8%. For personalization, the proposed scheme provides cumulative transitive values from the local trust to the global trust with mathematically guaranteed convergence.

Keywords

Trust management; peer-to-peer network; social network; security; trust evaluation;

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Times Cited By Web Of Science : 2 (Related Records In Web of Science)
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