Determining the Loss of Investment Probability for Risk based Decision Support System

In an e-commerce interaction it is rational for the initiating agent to be apprehensive about the outcome of the interaction and fear for the safety of its resources involved in it. The initiating agent can alleviate this to a certain extent by determining the degree of loss in its resources involved in the interaction. In this paper we propose a methodology by which the initiating agent can ascertain that, and which would further assist it to make an informed decision of its future course of action with an agent.