Current approaches for asserting trust focus on propagating known trust values amongst
peers in a trusted network and do not provide measures for asserting a trust value from user …

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

The age of information glut has fostered the proliferation of data and documents on the Web,
created by man and machine alike. Hence, there is an enormous wealth of minable …

Social networks let the people find and know other people and benefit form their information.
Semantic Web standard ontologies support social network sites for making use of other …

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

In recent years, we witnessed a sharp increase of online social networks (OSNs) such as
Twitter, Facebook and MySpace just to name a few. In these cyber spaces, one can set up a …

Nowadays dozens of people share their content in the current Web 2.0 space, talk with
friends in social networking sites such as Facebook and live on the Net in many other ways …

The emergence of trust as a key link between users in social networks has provided an
effective means of enhancing the personalization of on-line user content. However, the …

A trust metric is a technique for predicting how much a user of a social network might trust
another user. This is especially beneficial in situations where most users are unknown to …

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 …