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Propagation of trust and distrust

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Propagation of trust and distrust
A (directed) network of people connected by ratings or trust scores, and a model for propagating those trust scores, is a fundamental building block in many of today's most successful e-commerce and recommendation systems. We develop a framework of trust propagation schemes, each of which may be appropriate in certain circumstances, and evaluate the schemes on a large trust network consisting of 800K trust scores expressed among 130K people. We show that a small number of expressed trusts/distrust per individual allows us to predict trust between any two people in the system with high accuracy. Our work appears to be the first to incorporate distrust in a computational trust propagation setting. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and Retrieval; H.3.5 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Online Information Services--Web based services; G.1 [Numerical Analysis]: Numerical Linear Algebra; G.2 [Discrete Mathematics]: Graph...
Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where WWW
Authors Ramanathan V. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan, Andrew Tomkins
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