On-line platforms foster the communication capabilities of the Internet to develop large-scale
influence networks in which the quality of the interactions can be evaluated based on trust …

Social commerce is a promising new paradigm of e-commerce. Given the open and dynamic
nature of social media infrastructure, the governance structures of social commerce are …

Semantic Web endeavors have mainly focused on issues pertaining to knowledge
representation and ontology design. However, besides understanding information metadata …

A (directed) network of people connected by ratings or trust scores, and a model for
propagating those trust scores, is a fundamental building block in many of today's most …

With the proliferation of online communities, the deployment of knowledge, skills,
experiences and user generated content are generally facilitated among participant users. In …

We introduce a multidimensional framework for classifying and comparing trust and
reputation (T&R) systems. The framework dimensions encompass both hard and soft …

Social Networks represent a cornerstone of our daily life, where the so-called social
reviewing systems (SRSs) play a key role in our daily lives and are used to access data …

There are currently very few practical methods for assessing the quality of resources or the
reliability of other entities in the online environment. This makes it difficult to make decisions …

Level of Trust can determine which source of information is reliable and with whom we
should share or from whom we should accept information. There are several applications for …

Web-based social networks have become popular as a medium for disseminating
information and connecting like-minded people. The public accessibility of such networks …