Ranking systems such as those in product review sites and recommender systems usually use ratings to rank favorite items based on both their quality and popularity. Since higher ra...
The term online reputation addresses trust relationships amongst agents in dynamic open systems. These can appear as ratings, recommendations, referrals and feedback. Several repu...
A major impediment to using recommendation systems and collective knowledge for electronic commerce is the reluctance of individuals to reveal preferences in order to nd groups of...
Bernardo A. Huberman, Matthew K. Franklin, Tad Hog...
Trust can be applied to knowledge sharing on a distributed network of knowledge source agents. Each agent represents a person who trusts some other agents. Based on these trust-rel...
Trust dilution and trust fusion are two operators that are used to calculate transitive trust in a trust network. Various implementations of these operators already exist but are n...