An Introduction to the Literature on Online Reputation Systems for the MMAPPS project

<p> </p><p>This document provides an introduction to the research literature on online reputation systems. It has been written with a view to providing background and context for MMAPPS system design plans and is therefore focused on distributed systems. There is a companion annotated bibliography of summary and reading notes for many of the articles discussed in this document in the accompanying References. </p> <p></p>