A survey of trust in social networks

W Sherchan, S Nepal, C Paris - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2013 - dl.acm.org
Web-based social networks have become popular as a medium for disseminating
information and connecting like-minded people. The public accessibility of such networks …

A model for understanding social commerce

A Afrasiabi Rad, M Benyoucef - Journal of Information Systems Applied …, 2011 - jisar.org
When it comes to purchasing products and services, customers usually display different
decision making behaviors although most agree that decisions can be influenced by other …

A survey on trust prediction in online social networks

SM Ghafari, A Beheshti, A Joshi, C Paris… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Level of Trust can determine which source of information is reliable and with whom we
should share or from whom we should accept information. There are several applications for …

Predicting trusts among users of online communities: an epinions case study

H Liu, EP Lim, HW Lauw, MT Le, A Sun… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
Trust between a pair of users is an important piece of information for users in an online
community (such as electronic commerce websites and product review websites) where …

Trust, distrust and lack of confidence of users in online social media-sharing communities

YA Kim, MA Ahmad - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
With the proliferation of online communities, the deployment of knowledge, skills,
experiences and user generated content are generally facilitated among participant users. In …

A trust prediction framework in rating-based experience sharing social networks without a Web of Trust

YA Kim, R Phalak - Information Sciences, 2012 - Elsevier
As online experience sharing sites have become one of the popular collaborative online
communities, people are easily able to share their good and bad experiences on various …

Joint mobile vehicle–UAV scheme for secure data collection in a smart city

S Huang, J Gui, T Wang, X Li - Annals of Telecommunications, 2021 - Springer
A vehicular delay-tolerant network (VDTN) allows mobile vehicles (MVs) to collect data from
widely deployed delay-tolerant sensors in a smart city through opportunistic routing, which …

Social context-aware trust prediction: methods for identifying fake news

SM Ghafari, S Yakhchi, A Beheshti, M Orgun - Web Information Systems …, 2018 - Springer
Fake news, a type of yellow journalism or propaganda, consist of false or incorrect
information and have the potential to spread very fast on online social networks. This false …

The virtual worlds exploratorium: Using large-scale data and computational techniques for communication research

D Williams, N Contractor, MS Poole… - Communication …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the study of
communication-related behaviors using data from massively multiplayer online games …

Novel personal and group-based trust models in collaborative filtering for document recommendation

CH Lai, DR Liu, CS Lin - Information Sciences, 2013 - Elsevier
Collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems have been used in various application
domains to solve the information-overload problem. Recently, trust-based recommender …