Reputation-based Provider Incentivisation for Provenance Provision

Knowledge of circumstances under which past service provisions have occurred enables clients to make more informed selection decisions regarding their future interaction partners. Service providers, however, may often be reluctant to release such circumstances due to the cost and effort required, or to protect their interests. In response, we introduce a reputation-based incentivisation framework, which motivates providers towards the desired behaviour of reporting circumstances via influencing two reputation-related factors: the weights of past provider interactions, which directly impact the provider's reputation estimate, and the overall confidence in such estimates.