Towards engineering trust systems: Template-based, component-oriented assembly

Trust and reputation systems (TRS) require a composition of individual methods for prediction, selection and feedback/data generation in order to fully realise their potential. Building on recent work identifying common aspects of TRS, this paper presents a prototype of a software deployment tool for assembling TRS from individual modules. This tool is considered as a precursory support step to the systematic testing and comparison of the various facets that constitute the trust assessment process. This will support future research and provide an engineering perspective to the development of new TRS, by providing easy deployment of TRS for testing.