Reliable peers and useful resources: Searching for the best personalised learning path in a trust- and recommendation-aware environment

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1893-1907

  Carchiolo, Vincenza ^a   Longheu, Alessandro ^a   Malgeri, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

E learning; Peer to peer; Reputation; Social networks; Trust

Indexed keywords

ARIADNE; AWARE ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL ISSUES; DATA SETS; DATA SOURCE; LEARNING PATHS; LIFE LONG LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; WEB 2.0;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; E-LEARNING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 77549086682     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2009.12.023     Document Type: Article

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