Using reputation stable analysis patterns as model based software reuse

Reputation is the opinion (more technically, a social evaluation) of the public towards a person, a group of people, or an organization. In other words, reputation is the general estimation that the public has for a person or an institution. It is an important factor in many fields, like business, online communities or social status. It is also a subject of study in social, management and technological sciences. Its influence may range from competitive settings like markets to cooperative ones like firms, organizations, institutions and communities. Furthermore, reputation also acts on different levels of agency, individual and supra-individual. At the supra-individual level, it concerns groups, communities, collectives and abstract social entities (such as firms, corporations, organizations, countries, cultures and even civilizations). It affects phenomena of different scale, from everyday life to relationships between nations. Reputation is a fundamental instrument of social order, based upon distributed, spontaneous social control. As can be seen, there is nothing different in the way reputation is handled in any of those areas of application. In fact, reputation is the same in all of them. Therefore, the reason for the analysis of this concept, with the sole purpose of extracting its core knowledge, it is a worthwhile reason, especially if you are planning to reuse it in numerous applications, while still maintaining a cost effective nature.