MITRA: A Meta-Model for Information Flow in Trust and Reputation Architectures

Abstract

We propose MITRA, a meta-model for the information flow in (computational) trust and reputation architectures. On an abstract level, MITRA describes the information flow as it is inherent in prominent trust and reputation models from the literature. We use MITRA to provide a structured comparison of these models. This makes it possible to get a clear overview of the complex research area. Furthermore, by doing so, we identify interesting new approaches for trust and reputation modeling that so far have not been investigated.