… Many applications motivate the consideration of trust evaluation in online social networks (…
aggregate trust. In the next section, we apply FluidTrust to refine the size and trust aggregation…

… to be carried out by some authors using models that rely on some kind of transitive
property of trust via an iterative transitivity based aggregation along the different paths in the …

… of path length and aggregation method. Another … social network as a weighted directed
graph G(V, E). The vertex set V represent users and the edge set E represent relationship or trust …

… by ‘an aggregation of … Virtual Social Network, over time the Virtual Social Network emerges
as the most authoritative and influential source of knowledge. In fact, Virtual Social Networks …

… In this paper, we focus on social networks in which the users explicitly express their opinion
as trust and distrust statements. We refer to this kind of social networks as trust networks. An …

… -based recommendation system is to generate personalized recommendations by
aggregating the opinions of other users in the trust network. Recommendation techniques that …

… on intragroup trust, we discuss the aggregation and propagation of trust … trusted paths based
on trusted acquaintance chains, and we generate trusted graphs for online social networks. …

… If the chosen aggregation function is commutative and associative, and the concatenation
function is associative and distributes over the aggregation function, then trusts can be …

… The case u = 0 reflects an infinite amount of aggregate ratings, in which case the parameter
… Multinomial aggregate ratings can be used to derive binomial trust in the form of an opinion. …

… opinion about indirect connected users, we discuss the trust aggregation and propagation
along trust path. Finally, we evaluate the performance of our novel approach with simulations. …