Interpersonal trust between any two people in social networks is hard to gauge, and even
harder to infer, given that these two people are not connected by an immediate social link …

Computing trust between individuals in social networks is important for many intelligent
systems that take advantage of reasoning in social situations. There have been many …

Current work in the area of trust management in a" web of trust" can be classified into two
families. Approaches of the first family infer trustworthiness by propagating trustworthiness …

The behaviour based trust models generally compute social trust using interactions of a
member with other members, referred to as “friends”. These models largely ignore 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 …

The importance of trust in social networks instigated many research efforts to understand it
and predict it. However, the complex nature of trust and its counterpart; distrust; makes these …

In social networks, notions such as trust, fondness, or respect between users can be
expressed by associating a strength with each tie. This provides a view of social interaction …

The dynamic nature of trust has been universally accepted in the literature. As two users
interact with each other, trust between them evolves based on their interaction's experience …

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 …

Increasing interactions and engagements in social networks through monetary and material
incentives is not always feasible. Some social networks, specifically those that are built on …