Social context-aware trust inference for trust enhancement in social network based recommendations on service providers

World Wide Web

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 159-184

  Wang, Yan ^a   Li, Lei ^b   Liu, Guanfeng ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Context aware trust inference; Contextual trust; Recommender systems; Social networks

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FILTERING; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS;

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; CONTEXTUAL TRUST; DATA SPARSITY PROBLEMS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; TRUST INFERENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84922001255     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: 15731413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11280-013-0241-5     Document Type: Article

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