Enabling trust to ensure more effective and efficient agent interaction is at the heart of the Semantic Web vision. We propose
a computational trust model based on Bayesian decision theory in this paper. Our trust model combines a variety of sources
of information to assist users with making correct decision in choosing the appropriate providers according to their preferences
that expressed by prior information and utility function, and takes three types of costs (operational, opportunity and service
charges) into account during trust evaluating. Our approach gives trust a strict probabilistic interpretation and lays solid
foundation for trust evaluating on the Semantic Web.