Web-based social networks typically use public trust systems to facilitate interactions
between strangers. These systems can be corrupted by misleading information spread …

To improve recommendation quality, the existing trust-based recommendation methods
often directly use the binary trust relationship of social networks, and rarely consider the …

Formation of online social network (OSN) strongly depends on the quality of relationships
between its agents. Such relationships are affected by a host of factors; trust is one of them …

Computing the level of trust between two indirectly connected users in an online social
network (OSN) is a problem that has received considerable attention of researchers in …

With the pervasion of social media, trust has been playing more of an important role in
helping online users collect reliable information. In reality, user-specified trust relations are …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) have known a dramatic increase and they have been used
as means for a rich variety of activities. In fact, within OSNs, usersare able to discover …

Trust is one of the most important elements in social relationships. This importance becomes
more conspicuous when the person's interactions take place in a dynamic environment with …

Social network analysis has recently gained a lot of interest because of the advent and the
increasing popularity of social media, such as blogs, social networking applications …

In online social networks (OSNs), it is an open challenge to select proper recommenders for
predicting the trustworthiness of a target. In real life, people who are close and influential to …

In this paper, we present a trust metric which leverages the user similarities, social
relationships and trust propagations for measuring the trust between pairs of users in social …