Visible to the public A Fuzzy Clustering-Based Credibility Model for Trust Assessment in a Service-Oriented Architecture

TitleA Fuzzy Clustering-Based Credibility Model for Trust Assessment in a Service-Oriented Architecture
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsSaoud, Z., Faci, N., Maamar, Z., Benslimane, D.
Conference NameWETICE Conference (WETICE), 2014 IEEE 23rd International
Date PublishedJune
KeywordsClustering algorithms, Communities, Computational modeling, consumer credibility, consumer ratings, Credibility, credibility model, customer satisfaction, Equations, fuzzy clustering, fuzzy set theory, human computer interaction, majority rating, pattern clustering, Robustness, service-oriented architecture, Social network services, Trust, trust assessment, Trusted Computing, Web Service, web services
Abstract

This paper presents a credibility model to assess trust of Web services. The model relies on consumers' ratings whose accuracy can be questioned due to different biases. A category of consumers known as strict are usually excluded from the process of reaching a majority consensus. We demonstrated that this exclusion should not be. The proposed model reduces the gap between these consumers' ratings and the current majority rating. Fuzzy clustering is used to compute consumers' credibility. To validate this model a set of experiments are carried out.

DOI10.1109/WETICE.2014.35
Citation Key6927023