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 …

We propose a novel trust framework to address the issue of “Can Alice trust Bob on a
service?” in large online social networks (OSNs). Many models have been proposed for …

Trust is a central component of social interactions among humans. Many applications
motivate the consideration of trust evaluation in online social networks (OSNs). Some work …

Assessing trust in online social networks (OSNs) is critical for many applications such as
online marketing and network security. It is a challenging problem, however, due to the …

In online social networks (OSNs), to evaluate trust from one user to another indirectly
connected user, the trust evidence in the trusted paths (ie, paths built through intermediate …

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 …

In modern online social networks, each user is typically able to provide a value to indicate
how trustworthy their direct friends are. Inferring such a value of social trust between any pair …

Social trust assessment that characterizes a pairwise trustworthiness relationship can spur
diversified applications. Extensive efforts have been put in exploration, but mainly focusing …

Trust plays a crucial role in online social networks where users do not communicate or
interact with each other in a direct face-to-face manner. Although many researchers have …

We propose a trust management framework based on measurement theory to infer indirect
trust in online social communities using trust's transitivity property. Inspired by the similarities …