Predicting trusts among users of online communities: an Epinions case study

• Main Authors: LIU, Haifeng, LIM, Ee Peng, LAUW, Hady W., LE, Minh-Tam, SUN, Aixin, SRIVASTAVA, Jaideep, KIM, Young Ae
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: trust prediction; user interaction; online community; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/918; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1917/viewcontent/ec08.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Trust between a pair of users is an important piece of information for users in an online community (such as electronic commerce websites and product review websites) where users may rely on trust information to make decisions. In this paper, we address the problem of predicting whether a user trust...