Subjective trust inference in composite services

Lei Li*, Yan Wang

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Abstract

In Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) environments, the trustworthiness of each service is critical for a ser vice client when selecting one from a large pool of ser vices. The trust value of a service is usually in the range of [0,1] and is evaluated from the ratings given by service clients, which represent the subjective belief of these service clients on the satisfaction of delivered services. So a trust value can be taken as the subjective probability, with which one party believes that another party can perform an action in a certain situation. Hence, subjective probability theory should be adopted in trust evaluation. In addition, in SOC environments, a service usually invokes other services offered by different service providers forming a composite service. Thus, the global trust of a composite service should be evaluated based on complex invocation structures. In this paper, firstly, based on Bayesian inference, we propose a novel method to evaluate the subjective trust worthiness of a service component from a series of ratings given by service clients. Secondly, we interpret the trust dependency caused by service invocations as conditional probability, which is evaluated based on the subjective trust values of service components. Further more, we propose a joint subjective probability method to evaluate the subjective global trust of a composite service on the basis of trust dependency. Finally, we in troduce the results of our conducted experiments to illustrate the properties of our proposed subjective global trust inference method.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Proceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
EditorsMaria Fox, Poole David
Place of PublicationPalo Alto, California
PublisherAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Pages1377-1384
Number of pages8
Volume3
ISBN (Electronic)9781577354642
ISBN (Print)9781577354666
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: 11 Jul 201015 Jul 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2010

Other

Other24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 22nd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-10 / IAAI-10
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period11/07/1015/07/10

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