Coping with subjectivity and dishonesty in opinion evaluation by exploiting social factors

• Main Author: Fang, Hui
• Other Authors: Zhang Jie
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/62116
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In large and open environments, users may often encounter entities (e.g. people, products and information) which they have no previous experience with or prior knowledge of. In this case, they usually rely on the experience or knowledge of other users (referred as advisors) in the form of opinions (...