Applications

Trust metrics are currently applied in:


 * Peer to Peer file exchange and others computer based cooperative infrastructures usually very automated trust system with little manual intervention
 * Internet Pages Ranking, totally automated systems consider page view count or link count as an implicit trust data, other systems are based on explicit users feedback.
 * E-Commerce Users declare a feedback for each transaction, the reputation is then calculated using trust metric algorithm
 * Recommender Systems
 * Spam Filtering of email, blog comments, wiki edits
 * please add more

Trust metrics have been proposed in many other fields


 * Banking peer based banking system Ripple
 * Science, scientific articles citations network
 * Finance
 * Politics
 * please add more

Todo: add examples

See http://vapours.rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2003-July/011396.html