<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:ramo@skuff-band.de">ramo@skuff-band.de</a></b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ramo@skuff-band.de">ramo@skuff-band.de</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Is there any literature about that or does anyone of the Listpeople know<br>some more about that part?<br></blockquote></div><br><br>Search for 'trust' or 'reputation' systems.&nbsp; There's quite a bit of
published work in these areas.&nbsp; A couple of my favorite papers:<br>
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An Excess-based Economic Model for Resource Allocation in Peer-to-Peer
Networks: <a href="http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/ebe2003.ps">http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/ebe2003.ps</a><br><br>
Samsara: Honor Among Theives in a Peer-to-Peer System: <a href="http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p135-cox.pdf">http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p135-cox.pdf</a><br>
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Another short list of papers at:<br>
<a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~slee/p2p-trust-paper-list.html">http://www.cs.umd.edu/~slee/p2p-trust-paper-list.html</a><br>
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&nbsp; Alen<br>
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