Reputation relationship and its inner relationships for service oriented environments

Abstract

Trust and Reputation are vital components for trusted e-business. In this paper, we propose a definition of trust relationship. Additionally we discuss in depth the concept of trust relationship. A definition for reputation relationship is proposed in this paper. From the analysis of reputation relationship we find that the reputation relationship is a composite relationship and is composed of three inner relationships. We propose the three inner relationships and define them. We then propose the characteristics of the inner relationships within the reputation relationship