Surfing a web of trust: Reputation and reciprocity on Couchsurfing.com

Proceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, CSE 2009

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages 346-353

  Lauterbach, Debra ^a   Truong, Hung ^a   Shah, Tanuj ^a   Adamic, Lada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Couchsurfing; Reputation system; Social network; Trust

Indexed keywords

DEGREE OF INTERACTION; OFFLINE; ONLINE TRANSACTION; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; REPUTATION MECHANISM; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STRONGLY CONNECTED COMPONENT; WEB OF TRUST;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

COMPUTER SCIENCE;

EID: 70849124928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSE.2009.345     Document Type: Conference Paper

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