Feedback as "shadow of the present" : an alternative to reputation systems for e-marketplaces

• Main Authors: Li, Qin, Zhang, Jie, Martin, Keith
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101105; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/16740
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A reputation system is a common approach to induce sellers' good conduct in an e-marketplace, where feedback about a seller will be used by a potential future buyer to decide whether to conduct a transaction with the seller. However, reputation systems suffer from some inherent problems. We pro...