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Computational Trust Models

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Synonyms

Agent; Interaction

Glossary

Agent:

A generic term representing any entities (e.g., peer in Peer-to-Peer networks, user in various Web 2.0 applications) that interact with each other

Interaction or transaction:

The process where the trustor accepts and consumes services or products that are provided by the trustee

Trustee or target agent:

The agent who will be evaluated

Trustor:

The agent who wants to evaluate its trust in another agent

Overview

Many Internet-scale social applications have evolved recently, fueled by and fueling applications open to all, e.g., various Web 2.0 applications, where end users play active role in the system, and thus, their activities in turn significantly impact the system’s behavior and other users’ experience with the same. For instance, different from traditional static websites, Web 2.0 applications allow users to not only retrieve information but also contribute contents and share information with others (e.g., Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter,...

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  1. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Xin Liu & Karl Aberer

  2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Anwitaman Datta

  3. Distributed Inf. Sys Lab., Inst. for Core Computing Science (IIF), EPFL-IC-IIF-LSIR, Boment BC, Station 14, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Karl Aberer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Management, Institute of Informatics, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Przemysław Kazienko

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Szczecin, Poland

    Jaroslaw Jankowski

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Liu, X., Datta, A., Aberer, K. (2018). Computational Trust Models. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_228

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