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An Approach to Trust Based on Social Networks

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In the era of Internet-based communities, trusting has become a crucial matter in communities creation and evolution. In this paper we introduce an approach to the question of trusting inspired by social, real world networks. We aim at reproducing the behaviour individuals adopt in their life when they establish and maintain trust relationships, gathering information and opinions from their friends to assign trust to a new acquaintance they need to contact. We show that preliminary results are promising for building an effective and efficient trusting management in Internet communities.

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Boualem Benatallah Fabio Casati Dimitrios Georgakopoulos Claudio Bartolini Wasim Sadiq Claude Godart

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Carchiolo, V., Longheu, A., Malgeri, M., Mangioni, G., Nicosia, V. (2007). An Approach to Trust Based on Social Networks. In: Benatallah, B., Casati, F., Georgakopoulos, D., Bartolini, C., Sadiq, W., Godart, C. (eds) Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2007. WISE 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4831. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76993-4_5

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