Computing with Social Trust

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction to Computing with Social Trust

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Introduction to Computing with Social Trust

      • Jennifer Golbeck

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3. Models of Social Trust

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Examining Trust, Forgiveness and Regret as Computational Concepts

      • Stephen Marsh, Pamela Briggs

      Pages 9-43

   3. A Non-reductionist Approach to Trust

      • Cristiano Castelfranchi, Rino Falcone, Emiliano Lorini

      Pages 45-72

   4. Social Trust of Virtual Identities

      • Jean-Marc Seigneur

      Pages 73-118

4. Propagation of Trust

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Attack-Resistant Trust Metrics

      • Raph Levien

      Pages 121-132

   3. On Propagating Interpersonal Trust in Social Networks

      • Cai-Nicolas Ziegler

      Pages 133-168

   4. The Ripple Effect: Change in Trust and Its Impact Over a Social Network

      • Jennifer Golbeck, Ugur Kuter

      Pages 169-181

5. Applications of Trust

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Eliciting Informative Feedback: The Peer-Prediction Method

      • Nolan Miller, Paul Resnick, Richard Zeckhauser

      Pages 185-212

   3. Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications

      • John O’Donovan

      Pages 213-257

   4. Trust Metrics in Recommender Systems

      • Paolo Massa, Paolo Avesani

      Pages 259-285

   5. Trust and Online Reputation Systems

      • Ming Kwan, Deepak Ramachandran

      Pages 287-311

   6. Internet-Based Community Networks: Finding the Social in Social Networks

      • K. Faith Lawrence

      Pages 313-331

6. Back Matter

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This book has evolved out of roughly ve years of working on computing with social trust. In the beginning, getting people to accept that social networks and the relationships in them could be the basis for interesting, relevant, and exciting c- puter science was a struggle. Today, social networking and social computing have become hot topics, and those of us doing research in this space are nally nding a wealth of opportunities to share our work and to collaborate with others. This book is a collection of chapters that cover all the major areas of research in this space. I hope it will serve as a guide to students and researchers who want a strong introduction to work in the eld, and as encouragement and direction for those who are considering bringing their own techniques to bear on some of these problems. It has been an honor and privilege to work with these authors for whom I have so much respect and admiration. Thanks to all of them for their outstanding work, which speaks for itself, and for patiently enduringall my emails. Thanks, as always, to Jim Hendler for his constant support. Cai Ziegler has been particularly helpful, both as a collaborator, and in the early stages of development for this book. My appreciation also goes to Beverley Ford, Rebecca Mowat and everyone at Springer who helped with publication of this work.

• Internet
• control
• e-commerce
• knowledge
• recommender systems
• security
• semantic web
• trust

From the reviews:

"Social trust is becoming fundamental in computer science (CS), distributed systems, multiagent systems, e-commerce, and communication. This book provides a survey of the computational trust field. … This is a commendable effort by the editor to consolidate the growing literature on computational trust in a single volume. … it is a useful reference for both theorists and practitioners in the field of computational trust." (Haris Aziz, ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

• University of Maryland, USA

  Jennifer Golbeck

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