With the growth of the Internet and E-commerce, bipartite rating networks are ubiquitous. In such bipartite rating networks, there exist two types of entities: the users and the o...
Reputation forms an important part of how we come to trust people in face-to-face interactions, and thus situations involving trust online have come to realize that reputation is ...
Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Vid...
To enable a rich attribute-based authorization system, it is desirable that a large number of user attributes are available, possibly provided by multiple entities. The user may b...
The members of electronic communities are often unrelated to each other, they may have never met and have no information on each other's reputation. This kind of information ...