Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2008
A Model to Rate Trust in Communities of Practice
Javier Portillo Rodríguez, Juan Pablo Soto Barrera, Aurora Vizcaíno Barceló, Mario Piattini Velthuis
Communities of Practice are an important centre of knowledge exchange in which feelings such as membership or trust play a significant role since both is the basis for a suitable sharing of knowledge. However, current Communities of Practice are often “virtual” as their members may be geographically distributed. This makes it more difficult for a feeling of trust to take place. In this paper we describe a trust model designed to help software agents, which represent communities of practice members, to rate how trustworthy a knowledge source is. It is important to clarify that we also consider members as knowledge sources since, in fact, they are the most important knowledge providers.
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