Towards a Gravity-Based Trust Model for Social Networking Systems

Authors:
Muthucumaru Maheswaran;Hon Cheong Tang;Ahmad Ghunaim
Affiliations:
McGill University, Canada;McGill University, Canada;McGill University, Canada
Venue:
ICDCSW '07 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops
Year:
2007

Citing 0
Cited 6

A trust based approach for protecting user data in social networks

CASCON '07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
Dishonest behaviors in online rating systems: cyber competition, attack models, and attack generator

Journal of Computer Science and Technology - Special section on trust and reputation management in future computing systmes and applications
The effects of trust, security and privacy in social networking: A security-based approach to understand the pattern of adoption

Interacting with Computers
Why do people play social network games?

Computers in Human Behavior
A multi-dimensional and event-based model for trust computation in the social web

SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
A survey of trust in social networks

ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Web-based social networks are emerging as the top applications on the Internet. With this immense popularity, many of the shortcomings of the current social network deployments are also coming to light. One of the glaring problems with existing web-based social networks is trust management. In this paper, we focus on trust modeling in social networks. Another allied issue that is not considered here is using trust in managing the activities within the social network. We introduce a gravity-based model for estimating trust. We present the complete model along with the trust computation algorithms. We present initial results from a simulation study that investigates the feasibility of the proposed scheme.