A user-oriented approach to assessing web service trustworthiness

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Abstract

Trustworthiness is a synthetic characteristic of Web services, which not only involves objective attributes of software quality, but also subjective perception of users. However accurate assessment for service trustworthiness from user's perception is a difficult problem, since user perception of a particular Web service varies in terms of users, application scenarios and time. In this paper, we present a user oriented Web service trustworthiness assessment approach based on collecting and aggregating user feedbacks. The difference from other research work is that in our approach we consider application and user specific factors including the similarity between contexts of the evaluator and feedback reporter, the timeliness of feedback and the evaluator's preferences on quality properties of a Web service. A prototype of our approach is implemented based on ServiceXchange, a Web service repository and search engine developed by our research team. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach has a significant advantage over other approaches that treat feedbacks equally and ignore the difference among user preferences.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutonomic and Trusted Computing - 7th International Conference, ATC 2010, Proceedings
Pages195-207
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2010 - Xi'an, China
Duration: 26 Oct 201029 Oct 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6407 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, ATC 2010
Country/TerritoryChina
CityXi'an
Period26/10/1029/10/10

Keywords

  • SOA
  • Web service
  • trustworthiness assessment
  • user feedback

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