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A game theoretic model for digital identity and trust in online communities

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Tansu Alpcan,

Cengiz Örencik,

Albert Levi,

Erkay SavaşAuthors Info & Claims

ASIACCS '10: Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security

Pages 341 - 344

https://doi.org/10.1145/1755688.1755735

Published: 13 April 2010 Publication History

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Digital identity and trust management mechanisms play an important role on the Internet. They help users make decisions on trustworthiness of digital identities in online communities or e-commerce environments, which have significant security consequences. This work aims to contribute to construction of an analytical foundation for digital identity and trust by adopting a quantitative approach. A game theoretic model is developed to quantify community effects and other factors in trust decisions. The model captures factors such as peer pressure and personality traits. The existence and uniqueness of a Nash equilibrium solution is studied and shown for the trust game defined. In addition, synchronous and asynchronous update algorithms are shown to converge to the Nash equilibrium solution. A numerical analysis is provided for a number of scenarios that illustrate the interplay between user behavior and community effects.

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DOI:10.1145/1755688

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Pennsylvania State University

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