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

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

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 …

The aim of this paper is two folds. Firstly, some of the well known methods of trust modeling
and trust evaluation that relates mainly to the semantic web structure are reviewed and …

Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming a popular method of meeting people and
keeping in touch with friends. OSNs resort to trust evaluation models and algorithms to …

Trust can help participants in online social communities to make decisions; however, it is a
challenge for systems to map trust into computational models because of its subjective …

Everyone agrees on the importance of enabling trust on the SemanticWeb to ensure more
efficient agent interaction. Current research on trust seems to focus on developing …

While most research on the topic of trust on the semantic web has focused largely on digital
signatures, certificates, and authentication, more social notions of trust which are reputation …

Abstract In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where
trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the …

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 …