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In this paper, we introduce a framework for providing incentives for honest participation in global-scale distributed trust management infrastructures. Our system can improve the quality of information supplied by these systems by reducing free-riding and encouraging honesty. Our approach is twofold: (1) we provide rewards for participants that advertise their experiences to others, and (2) impose the credible threat of halting the rewards, for a substantial amount of time, for participants who consistently provide suspicious feedback. For this purpose we develop an honesty metric which can indicate the accuracy of feedback.
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Fernandes, A., Kotsovinos, E., Östring, S., Dragovic, B. (2004). Pinocchio: Incentives for Honest Participation in Distributed Trust Management. In: Jensen, C., Poslad, S., Dimitrakos, T. (eds) Trust Management. iTrust 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2995. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24747-0_6
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