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 …

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 …

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 …

Online social networks (OSNs) are becoming a popular tool for people to socialize and keep
in touch with their friends. OSNs need trust evaluation models and algorithms to improve …

Trust systems represent a significant trend in decision support for social networks' service
provision. The basic idea is to allow users to rate each other even without being direct …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The transitivity property of trust enables the propagation of a trust value through a chain of
trusting users in social networks and then provides an expected trust value for another user …