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Trust Networks on the Semantic Web

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Cooperative Information Agents VII (CIA 2003)

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The so-called “Web of Trust” is one of the ultimate goals of the Semantic Web. Research on the topic of trust in this domain has focused largely on digital signatures, certificates, and authentication. At the same time, there is a wealth of research into trust and social networks in the physical world. In this paper, we describe an approach for integrating the two to build a web of trust in a more social respect. This paper describes the applicability of social network analysis to the semantic web, particularly discussing the multi-dimensional networks that evolve from ontological trust specifications. As a demonstration of algorithms used to infer trust relationships, we present several tools that allow users to take advantage of trust metrics that use the network.

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  1. University of Maryland, College Park, A. V. Williams Building, College Park, Maryland, 20742

    Jennifer Golbeck, Bijan Parsia & James Hendler

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna a Cesena, via Venezia 52, 47023, Cesena, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  3. Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies (CETINIA), Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Calle Tulipán s/n, 28933, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain

    Sascha Ossowski

  4. TelioSonera Finland, P.O. Box 970, 00051, Sonera, Finland

    Heimo Laamanen

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Golbeck, J., Parsia, B., Hendler, J. (2003). Trust Networks on the Semantic Web. In: Klusch, M., Omicini, A., Ossowski, S., Laamanen, H. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VII. CIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2782. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45217-1_18

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