Finding the optimal social trust path for the selection of trustworthy service providers in complex social networks

• Main Authors: LIU, Guanfeng, WANG, Yan, ORGUN, Mehmet A., LIM, Ee Peng
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Trust; Social networks; Trust path selection; Service selection; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing; Social Media
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1981; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2980/viewcontent/06109231.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Online social networks have provided the infrastructure for a number of emerging applications in recent years, e.g., for the recommendation of service providers or the recommendation of files as services. In these applications, trust is one of the most important factors in decision making by a servi...