Gather scholarly references for "reputation systems".
You may collect references in any language, but your answers to questions must be in English or Japanese.
This exercise is for individual training. Please do not work together. On the other hand, this method is not tied to "reputation systems." It is a generic process you can use in your own research. When you are doing your own research, it is very helpful to work together at this stage.
Do a Google Scholar search for references. Record your keywords.
From the first two pages pick 5 to investigate. List them (authors, title (translation of Chinese title), URL).
Give a 1-line reason why you picked each one, referring to the Google blurb.
Visit or download them and read their abstracts. If less than three have abstracts, they're not scholarly enough. Go back to 1 and add 5 more (new! no overlap!) until you have at least five articles with abstracts.
After reading the abstracts, pick two of the articles to investigate their references recursively. Explain why you picked those articles, in two sentences.
First, explain what content attracted you to the article. Then explain your evaluation of the quality of the article. Both should be based on only the abstract. (If you happen to pick an article which is reference-poor or has no references, you should try another.)
Check whether any references occur in both lists. What do you think that means? Note: the context (the particular articles you chose) may affect your answer here! Explain one other interpretation of a common reference.
Does either article cite the other? If so, what do you think that means? Note: again, the context (the particular articles you chose) may affect your answer here! Explain one other interpretation of a cross-cite.
From the combined list of references, pick 5 articles you have not yet read abstracts for. List them (authors, title, journal publication data or URL).
Give a 1-line reason why you picked each one.
Note: in part 2, only online resources were mentioned, to save you time. Here, you're not asked to follow up, so print journals probably should be preferred. Explain why.