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LIT-1130: Flow-based reputation with uncertainty: evidence-based subjective logic

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StatusActive — read 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1354) in full, from arXiv's own copy (v2); worth reading for the diagnosis that subjective logic's discounting does not distribute over its evidence-adding consensus, which forces trust networks into canonical form and discards edges, and for the fix: discounting as scaling of evidence, x ⊡ y = g(x)·y, which distributes, so a PageRank-like fixed point handles loops without discarding information. Read it knowing that there is no ground truth and no attack model (self-promotion and Sybil attacks are left for future work), that convergence is observed and not proved, that g is left open, and that its loop example shows a referrer's opinion can make a trust near-certain whatever the direct opinion says.
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Tagsnetwork-science, probabilistic-modeling
Cited as “paper” byNOTE-1354 — Škorić, de Hoogh and Zannone — Evidence-based subjective logic

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Škorić, B., de Hoogh, S. J. A. & Zannone, N. (2016). International Journal of Information Security 15(4):381–402. doi:10.1007/s10207-015-0298-5.

Read in full on 2026-10-29 (NOTE-1354).

Why this is here

A15 of the exchange of 2026-10-16: functional against referral trust, for role-indexed endorsement (CLAIM-281) and recycled authority (CLAIM-282). A15: a trust algebra does not by itself keep an operator’s influence independent of its own endorsements.

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