Reputation and recommendation systems are fundamental for the formation of community market places. Yet, they are easy targets for attacks which disturb a market's equilibrium and are often based on cheap pseudonyms used to submit ratings. We present a method to price ratings using trusted computing, based on pseudonymous tickets.
@article{arxiv.cs/0607142,
title = {Employing Trusted Computing for the forward pricing of pseudonyms in reputation systems},
author = {Nicolai Kuntze and Dominique Maehler and Andreas U. Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0607142},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Refereed contribution to the 4th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods, December 13 -15, 2006 on AXMEDIS 2006 in Leeds, England. 5 pages, 3 figures, final version