Predicting trusts among users of online communities: An epinions case study

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 310-319

  Liu, Haifeng ^a   Lim, Ee Peng ^a   Lauw, Hady W ^a   Le, Minh Tam ^a   Sun, Aixin ^a   Srivastava, Jaideep ^b   Kim, Young Ae ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Online community; Trust prediction; User interaction

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; PREDICTION PROBLEM; PRODUCT REVIEWS; TEST CASE; USER INTERACTION; WEB OF TRUST;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FORECASTING; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350686352     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1386790.1386838     Document Type: Conference Paper

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