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An Intimacy-based Trust Reasoning Method for Intelligent Ecommerce Systems

지능형 전자 상거래 시스템 구축을 위한 친밀도 기반 신뢰도 추론방법

  • Kwon, Ohbyung (School of Management, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Park, Kwangho (Center for Advanced Information Technology, Kyung Hee University Seoul)
  • Received : 2013.01.10
  • Accepted : 2013.02.28
  • Published : 2013.05.31
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Abstract

Estimating levels of user trust is important for maintaining continuous use of e-commerce systems because trust alleviates user concerns about the invisibility of service providers or their reputation. Conventional trust estimation approaches such as policy-and reputationbased reasoning have focused on the experience of e-commerce systems at an early stage. However, only a few trust reasoning methods have considered the mature stage, which is more related to continuance intention. We propose a trust reasoning method dedicated to the mature stage of using e-commerce systems. In particular, a new method of unobtrusively estimating the degree of user intimacy is developed, because intimacy has been highly associated with trust as well as reputation. Our experiments show that the proposed method is valid and can be used in conjunction with reputation-based trust reasoning.

전자상거래에서 신뢰도는 전자상거래 서비스 제공업체의 비가시성이나 그들의 평판으로 인한 소비자의 우려를 완화시켜주기 때문에 사용자의 신뢰수준을 추정하는 것은 전자상거래의 지속적 사용에 있어 중요한 기술이다. 기존의 신뢰도 측정법은 주로 전자상거래 시스템에서 사용된 정책과 평판기반의 추론에 근거한 사용자들의 초기 경험에 중심을 두었다. 그러나, 보다 성숙된 단계의 전자상거래 시스템 지속사용 가능성 추정을 위한 신뢰도 측정에 대해서는 별다른 대안이 없었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 성숙단계에서의 전자상거래 시스템에 알맞은 신뢰도 추론방법을 제안한다. 특히, 친밀도는 평판뿐 아니라 신뢰도와도 깊이 관계하고 있기 때문에 사용자의 입력을 강제하지 않는 친밀도 측정 방법을 새롭게 개발하였다. 성과 측정을 위한 실험에서는 제안된 방법이 유효하고, 평판기반의 신뢰도 추론과 함께 사용할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

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