Modeling of trust to provide users assisted secure actions in online communities

Abstract

Nowadays, the main problem is not the lack of high quality resources, but their retrieval, organization and maintenance. That is a challenge for the users in making the best and right decisions. The paper presents a model for trust, able to be used in various online communities. The model provides to each user from the community, a personalized secure context to manage significant resources. Therefore the model assures every user that his preferences are important and according to this the system furnished resources efficiently. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.