Reputation is a valuable asset in online social lives and it has drawn increased attention.
Due to the existence of noisy ratings and spamming attacks, how to evaluate user reputation …

Cloud applications based on service-oriented architectures usually integrate many
component services to implement specific application logic. In service-oriented computing …

The traditional methods to rank a Facebook fan page only rely on the user engagement
including the number of posts, comments, and “likes”. The polarity of each comment, which …

In rating systems like Epinions and Amazon's product review systems, users rate items on
different topics to yield item scores. Traditionally, item scores are estimated by averaging all …

Recommender systems have attracted much attention during the past decade. Many attack
detection algorithms have been developed for better recommendations, mostly focusing on …

In the scientific community, there is no single, objective, and precise metric for ranking the
work of researchers based on their scientific merit. Most existing metrics are based on the …

In federated cloud environment, it is too hard for the consumers to manage the services as
multiple services may be rendered from multiple providers. Finding the trustable cloud …

Rating data collected by recommendation systems contain noise caused by human
uncertainty and malicious attacks. Existing outlier removal approaches usually aim at …

In the scientific community, there is no single, objective, and precise metric for ranking the
work of researchers based on their scientific merit. Most existing metrics are based on the …

Blockchain is an innovative distributed ledger technology that is widely used to build next-
generation applications without the support of a trusted third party. With the ceaseless …