Computing with Social Trust

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Golbeck, Jennifer (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Series: Human–Computer Interaction Series,
• Subjects: Computer science.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computers and civilization.; Computer Science.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Computers and Society.

As open, distributed systems like the Web continue to grow, and more and more content created by users becomes available, the question of whom and what can be trusted becomes increasingly important. This book looks at one solution – social trust relationships – and examines the challenging research...

Table of Contents:

• Models of Social Trust
• Examining Trust, Forgiveness and Regret as Computational Concepts
• A Non-reductionist Approach to Trust
• Social Trust of Virtual Identities
• Propagation of Trust
• Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics
• On Propagating Interpersonal Trust in Social Networks
• The Ripple Effect: Change in Trust and Its Impact Over a Social Network
• Applications of Trust
• Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method
• Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications
• Trust Metrics in Recommender Systems
• Trust and Online Reputation Systems
• Internet-Based Community Networks: Finding the Social in Social Networks
• to Computing with Social Trust
• to Computing with Social Trust.