Reputation
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[edit] General meaning
Reputation is the opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the public toward a person, a group of people, or an organization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation
[edit] In the context of trust metrics
Seen from the trust point of view, reputation is an objective trust shared among all community members in opposition to subjective trust that is a personal opinion towards a person.
Automated Reputation systems calculate a reputation value for a person based on:
- trust towards that person declared by other members of the community
- positive or negative episodes directly experienced by community member with that person and declared to the system.
An important example is Ebay's reputation system.
