… of measuring subjective uncertainty within a trust relationship. This paper studies trust
propagation and trust network evaluation in social networks by using uncertainty theory. First, we …

… Uncertainty theory is a mathematical system that studies the belief degree of experts and
provides a new method for measuring trust in social networks. In this paper, uncertainty theory …

… theory is of significant interest to our research on the formation and propagation of a computational
notion of trust … In this section, we review the major research into small world theory, …

… trust management framework[20], according to these two social theories, to study users’ trust
propagation … We summarize balance theory for three rules: • If trust values along a chain are …

… trust propagation-based consensus model considering individual attitude for preference
modification in a social networked setting with uncertain … essentially modeled by graph theory. …

… on an uncertainty value … theory when constructing an operator of trust propagation and
aggregation. The usual approach to this problem is to use two separate operators for propagation …

… a unified value for trust is to consider reliability and self-confidence within the framework
of an uncertainty theory and to rely on the set of combination rules the theory defines-for …

… a framework that defines trust metrics using information theory and develops trust models
of trust propagation in ad hoc networks. The proposed theoretical models are then applied to …

… of trust propagation schemes, each of which may be appropriate in certain circumstances, and
evaluate the schemes on a large trust network consisting of 800K trust … network theory and …

… and challenges that trust and reputation systems pose. To do so, it discusses trust, reputation
and … The existent mechanisms to estimate and propagate trust and reputation, in distributed …