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Abstract
Recently, information ethics has been developed as a new perspective into ethics based on informational and computational considerations. As distrust is an essentially ethical problem in informational environments, it is plausible to think of solutions for trust-related problems in the field of information ethics. This article proposes an entropy-based trust model inspired by entropy structure and information ethics principles as a solution to trust problems in service-oriented environments. The system is capable of maintaining a robust awareness of the trustworthiness of agents. Whereas most trust models are developed as problem-specific solutions, the system proposed here is directly derived from a higher order ethical/informational philosophy that makes it better fit with many problems in an informational environment. The experimental results demonstrate that the performance of the proposed system is promising in terms of trust calculation accuracy and detection of deceptive behavior as well as the adaptation speed to environmental changes.
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Amir Khoshkbarchi
Amir Khoshkbarchi received MS degrees in Information Technology Engineering in Amirkabir University of Technology (2016). He is currently a PhD candidate of information technology engineering in Amirkabir University of Technology. His research interests include trust models, Information Ethics, Philosophy of Information, computer security, machine learning, and data mining.
Hamid Reza Shahriari
Hamid Reza Shahriari is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Engineering in Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Sharif University of Technology in 2007. His research interests include information security, security in e-commerce, trust models, and database security.