Abstract In Service-Oriented Computing environments, there is a large number of service
providers providing a variety of services to service customers. Conventional recommender …

Online social networks have been widely used for a large number of activities in recent
years. Utilizing social network information to infer or predict trust among people to …

In recent years, social networking sites have been used as a means for a rich variety of
activities, such as movie recommendations and product recommendations. In order to …

Trust is one of the most important factors for participants' decision-making in Online Social
Networks (OSNs). The trust network from a source to a target without any prior interaction …

Incorporating social network information and contexts to improve recommendation
performance has been drawing considerable attention recently. However, a majority of …

Social recommendation takes advantage of the influence of social relationships in decision
making and the ready availability of social data through social networking systems. Trust …

Trust plays a critical role in determining social interactions in both online and offline
networks, and reduces information overload, uncertainties and risk from unreliable users. In …

Given the increasing applications of service computing and cloud computing, a large
number of Web services are deployed on the Internet, triggering the research of Web service …

Social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology, but has
recently gained a lot of interest in Web mining research, because of the advent and the …

Utilizing social network information to improve recommendation quality has recently
attracted much attention. However, most existing social recommendation models cannot well …