A group trust metric for identifying people of trust in online social networks

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 13173-13181

  Al Oufi, Samah ^a   Kim, Heung Nam ^a   El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Group trust metric; Online communities; Social networks; Trust networks

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM FLOWS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; ORDERED SET; PERSONAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICES; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; STRONGEST PATHS; TRUST METRICS; TRUST NETWORKS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WEBSITES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865257994     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.05.084     Document Type: Article

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