Trust and reputation systems for production networks

Abstract

Trust and reputation in production networks are of increasing importance, both from theoretical and practical points of view. One can find some case studies considering trustfulness in different areas such as supply chains, cloud, distributed and platform-based manufacturing as well but considering trustfulness is not yet widespread in this field. The aim of the paper is twofold: first, to provide an overview about trust and reputation systems (TRSs) including definitions, classification of systems, rankings, challenges attack types, defense mechanisms and case studies. Second, to compose a requirement list based on challenges found in the literature and consequences drawn towards a TRS that can be used between production companies and supply chain members and is able to face the issues found in the scientific papers and introduced by the authors. Copyright (C) 2024 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)