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In this paper, a dynamical computation model of reputation for B2C e-commerce is proposed. Firstly, conceptions associated with trust and reputation are introduced, and the mathematical formula of trust for B2C e-commerce is given. Then a dynamical computation model of reputation is further proposed based on the conception of trust and the relationship between trust and reputation. In the proposed model, classical varying processes of reputation of B2C e-commerce are discussed. Furthermore, the iterative trust and reputation computation models are formulated via a set of difference equations based on the closed-loop feedback mechanism. Finally, a group of numerical simulation experiments are performed to illustrate the proposed model of trust and reputation. Experimental results show that the proposed model is effective in simulating the dynamical processes of trust and reputation for  B2C e-commerce.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/fi7040405","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,27]],"date-time":"2015-10-27T17:23:21Z","timestamp":1445966601000},"page":"405-428","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Dynamical Trust and Reputation Computation Model for  B2C E-Commerce"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Bo","family":"Tian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Management & Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kecheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Informatics Research Centre, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6UD, UK"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yuanzhong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Information Management & Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai 200433, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,10,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1145\/2697390","article-title":"ReputationPro: The efficient approaches to contextual transaction trust computation in e-commerce environments","volume":"9","author":"Zhang","year":"2015","journal-title":"ACM Trans. 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