Finding a Trustworthy Service Provider in Online Service Oriented Trust Network

Online service oriented networks are viewed as social networks, which consists of service providers and consumers. A prospective service consumer always wish to find the most trustworthy service provider. As trust is subjective, finding a trustworthy service provider is very difficult. The service oriented trust network, consist of multiple service providers, and there exist multiple path between the service consumer and providers. Finding the most trustworthy service provider requires the evaluation of trustworthiness. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for finding the trustworthiness of the service providers. Service consumer finds the trustworthy provider via their neighbours through propagating the trust information through the network.