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Knowledge-Based Systems 22 (2009) 410–420 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Knowledge-Based Systems journal homepage: www.else /locate/knosys Can reputation migrate? On the propagation of reputation in multi-context communities Ebrahim Bagheri a,*, Reza Zafarani b, M. Barouni-Ebrahimi b a Institute for Information Technology, National Research Council Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada b Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, National Research Council Canada, Apt 510, 780 Montgomery Street, Fredericton, NB, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: As e-communities grow in both quality and quantity, their online users require more appropriate tools to Received 21 July 2008 suite their needs in such environments. Many such tools are not explicitly needed in real-world commu- Received in revised form 24 April 2009 nities where humans directly interact with each other. Trust making and reputation ascription are among Accepted 25 May 2009 the most important examples of such tools. Humans often build trust relationships through interaction or Available online 2 June 2009 recommendation, and are therefore able to ascribe relevant reputation to those they interact with. How- ever, in online communities the process of trust making and reputation ascription is more complicated. In Keywords: this paper, we address a special case of the trust making process where community users need to create Computational reputation