A complete description of trust relationship is key to construct a high precision trust model. But most of existing models not only miss the negative information and the hesitation information of trust, but also ignore the discordance between text comments and ratings. To solve the problems, a dynamic trust evaluation model based on the affect intensity is proposed. In the model, the intensity of sentimental polarities are calculated from words in comments. The corresponding relation between evaluations of trust property and the emotional intensity vector can be also described. Time series weights to distinguish the importance of transaction at different time are determined by the inverse form of exponential distribution. So the dynamic attenuation of trust can be described. To improve the polymerization ability of trust information, the local trust, the feedback trust and the overall trust are calculated by operators of fuzzy logic. The experimental results show the proposed model can effectively describe the trust relationship between nodes to identify and eliminate various malicious attacks significantly. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
['Guoqiang Zhou', 'Kuang Wang', 'Chen Zhao', 'Guofu Zhou']
A dynamic trust evaluation mechanism based on affective intensity computing