Online social networks are increasingly being used as places where communities gather to
exchange information, form opinions, collaborate in response to events. An aspect of this …

In this paper we analyze the community of a social network site, Advogato. The peculiar
characteristics of Advogato is that users can explicitly express weighted trust relationships …

In this article, we describe a new approach that gives an explicit probabilistic interpretation
for social networks. In particular, we focus on the observation that many existing Web-based …

Trust systems represent a significant trend in decision support for social networks' service
provision. The basic idea is to allow users to rate each other even without being direct …

Trust is one source of information that has been widely adopted to personalize online
services for users, such as in product recommendations. However, trust information is …

The growth of Web-based social networking and the properties of those networks have
created great potential for producing intelligent software that integrates a user's social …

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 …

The transitivity property of trust enables the propagation of a trust value through a chain of
trusting users in social networks and then provides an expected trust value for another user …

In many computing systems, information is produced and processed by many people.
Knowing how much a user trusts a source can be very useful for aggregating, filtering, and …

Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is an evolutionary idea which combines traditional IoT
models with social network paradigms." Objects" in SIoT formulate social relationships with …