Quantifying the Loss in Resource Benefit for Risk based Decision in Digital Business Ecosystem

In a financial digital business ecosystem, the trusting agent by analyzing beforehand the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent can make a better decision of its future course of interaction with it. Another factor that would help the trusting agent in deciding whether to interact or not with a probable trusted agent, is to determine the probability of it not achieving the full benefit of its invested resources. In this paper, we propose a methodology by which the trusting agent can determine the loss of its resource benefit in interacting with a probable trusted agent before proceeding.