An ordering-based approach to the evaluation of trust systems

Trust systems provide a promising way to build trust relationships among users in distributed and opening systems. However, it is difficult to make quantitatively comparative analysis on different trust systems because of the different application settings and the lack of effective measures. This paper constructs a framework of trust systems in terms of linear algebra, which helps us model and implement different systems in a uniform way. Besides, we propose an ordering-based approach to evaluating trust systems, then give two relevant ordering-base measures. The experiment results suggests that our method provides an effective way to analyze and evaluate trust systems.