Title: Distributed reputation management for service-oriented peer-to-peer enterprise communities

Authors: Michele Amoretti; Francesco Zanichelli

Addresses: Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy ' Department of Information Engineering, Università degli Studi di Parma, 43124 Parma, Italy

Abstract: Peer-to-peer service sharing might allow for unmediated, almost instantaneous inter-firm collaboration, yet robust reputation management techniques are strongly required to withstand fraudulent actions of malicious peers. In this paper we illustrate a distributed reputation management system for service-oriented peer-to-peer networks, called SAFE, which exploits voting and effectively copes with trust misrepresentation attempts. Simulation results show that SAFE allows peers to select high-quality services, even when a large number of malicious providers and advisors are active in the community.

Keywords: service-oriented architecture; SOA; peer-to-peer networks; P2P networks; reputation management; voting; trust misrepresentation; simulation; service quality; service selection; malicious peers; network security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCSE.2016.078443

International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 2016 Vol.13 No.2, pp.147 - 157

Received: 15 Jul 2014
Accepted: 31 Oct 2014
Published online: 19 Aug 2016 *

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