Computing with Social Trust

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Golbeck, Jennifer. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: HumanComputer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computers and Society.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9

As open, distributed systems like the Web continue to grow, and more and more content created by users becomes available, the question of whom and what can be trusted becomes increasingly important. This book looks at one solution  social trust relationships  and examines the challenging research...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to Computing with Social Trust
• Part I Models of Social Trust
• Examining Trust, Forgiveness and Regret as Computational Concepts
• A Non-reductionist Approach to Trust
• Social Trust of Virtual Identities
• Part II Propagation of Trust
• Attack Resistant Trust Metrics
• On Propagating Interpersonal Trust in Social Networks
• The Ripple Effect: Change in Trust and its Impact over a Social Network
• Part III Applications of Trust
• Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method
• Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications
• Trust Metrics in Recommender Systems
• Trust and Online Reputation Systems
• Internet Based Community Networks: Finding the Social in Social Networks.