In general, the Subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods,
systems, and program products. A score for each of a plurality of authors of posts submitted …

With the advent of online social networks, recommender systems have became crucial for
the success of many online applications/services due to their significance role in tailoring …

Social network analysis has recently gained a lot of interest because of the advent and the
increasing popularity of social media, such as blogs, social networking applications …

This book describes research performed in the context of trust/distrust propagation and
aggregation, and their use in recommender systems. This is a hot research topic with …

By now people's opinions and actions are more and more strongly influenced by what is
posted and shared on the various social networks. Thus, malicious users can purposely …

In this article we consider the special abilities needed by agents for assessing trust based on
inference and reasoning. We analyze the case in which it is possible to infer trust towards …

References Cited ranks are used to determine trust factors for the respective Us PATENT
DOCUMENTS documents. The trust factors are used to adjust information retr1eval scores of …

Trust can be viewed at the same time as an instrument both for an agent selecting the right
partners in order to achieve its own goals, and for an agent of being selected from other …

(57) ABSTRACT A search engine system provides search results that are ranked according
to a measure of the trust associated with entities that have provided labels for the documents …

Social network analysis has emerged as a key technique in modern sociology, but has
recently gained a lot of interest in Web mining research, because of the advent and the …