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Rating systems are used by many websites, which allow customers to rate available items according to their own experience. Subsequently, reputation models are used to aggregate available ratings in order to generate reputation scores for items. A problem with current reputation models is that they provide solutions to enhance accuracy of sparse datasets not thinking of their models performance over dense datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel reputation model to generate more accurate reputation scores for items using any dataset; whether it is dense or sparse. Our proposed model is described as a weighted average method, where the weights are generated using the normal distribution. Experiments show promising results for the proposed model over state-of-the-art ones on sparse and dense datasets.
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Abdel-Hafez, A., Xu, Y., Jøsang, A. (2014). A Normal-Distribution Based Reputation Model. In: Eckert, C., Katsikas, S.K., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8647. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09770-1_13
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