The fractal property is one of the most important properties in complex networks. It describes
the power law relationship between characteristics of the box and the box size. There are …

The society in the digital transformation era demands new decision schemes such as e-
democracy or based on social media. Such novel decision schemes require the participation …

One of the biggest challenges facing trust and reputation systems (TRSs) is evaluating their
ability to withstand various attacks, as these systems are vulnerable to multiple types of …

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 …

Web search is widely used to find online medical advice. As such, health-related information
access requires retrieval algorithms capable of promoting reliable documents and filtering …

Nowadays, trust management plays a significant role in different applications like
commercial applications, Internet of Things (IoT) based applications, social networking …

Due to the explosive rise of online social networks, social network analysis (SNA) has
emerged as a significant academic field in recent years. Understanding and examining …

In group decision-making (GDM) problems, experts need to communicate and adjust their
opinions in order to achieve consensus on the final decision-making output. Since experts …

Graph data in the real world is often accompanied by the problem of missing attributes.
Recently, self-supervised graph representation learning, implementing data imputation …

Understanding the dynamic nature of group formation and evolution in social networks is
seen as a significant step to better describe how individuals' trust nodes are gathered and …