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A Survey of Trust Evaluation Methods Erden Sacan Department of Computing, Faculty of Science, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia erden.sacan@.au belief in the competence of an entity to act de- Abstract pendably, reliably and securely within a specific context.’[Grandison and Sloman, 2000] Trust and reputation management sys- The high level of trust of a party in an open tems are essential parts of open networks. P2P network may be equal to a minimum level For example if party A is planning to of trust for an e-commerce transaction. In a P2P download files from party B in a P2P file sharing network, a transaction can be ranked network, reputation management system as simply successful or not (1 or 0). Nevertheless can provide information about trustwor- in an e-commerce transaction we need to know thiness of party B by collecting reputa- much more than that (quality of product? deli- tion information from other parties. very time?) to decide about a reputation value. For each type of