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Online rating systems have been widely adopted by online trading communities to ban “bad” service providers and prompt them to provide “good” services. However, the performance of the online rating systems is easily compromised by various unfair ratings, e.g. balloting, badmouthing, and complementary unfair ratings. How to mitigate the influence of the unfair ratings remains an important issue in online rating systems. In this paper, we propose a novel entropy-based method to measure the rating quality as well as to screen the unfair ratings. Experimental results show that the proposed method is both effective and practical in alleviating the influence of different types of unfair ratings.
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Weng, J., Miao, C., Goh, A. (2005). Protecting Online Rating Systems from Unfair Ratings. In: Katsikas, S., López, J., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11537878_6
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