Design of online reputation systems: an economic perspective

Thesis

Online reputation systems are certainly the most overlooked 'heroes' of today's social Web. While these mechanisms are a vital element of every online transaction, they have received less consideration than some of their more well-known cousins, such as recommender systems or social networks, whose success would often not have been possible and tenable without their discrete but active backing. It then follows that despite their value and importance, the implementation of current reputatio...

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Authors: Bersier, F

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: systems; rating; design; decision; web; Internet; reputation; behaviour
• Subjects: Computing; Economics; Shaping the Internet; Game theory,economics,social and behavioral sciences (mathematics); Microeconomics; Internet research