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Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: An Online Trust Indexing Algorithm
Rui Tang; Luke Lu; Yan Zhuang; Simon Fong
2013-05-02
Conference Name2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology
Source PublicationProceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012
Pages280-285
Conference Date4-7 Dec. 2012
Conference PlaceMacau, China
PublisherIEEE
Abstract

Online social network has become prevalent in our modern lifestyle by which one can easily connect and share information with anybody around the world. Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, Sina Weibo, are some exemplars nowadays. As the population of users in social networks grows, the concern of security in using such network escalates too. The social network is formed by people from all walks of life. Since there is little physical interaction available, it is difficult to verify whether social network users are trustworthy or not. In this paper, we propose a method that assists users to infer the degree of trustworthiness in social network. A quantitative indicator, which we call it Trust Index (TI) is assigned to each user, so one can have a ranked list of users, those with the greatest values of TI appear on top and vice versa. This serves as a reference for a user to decide how much s/he would want to trust them in social networks. TI is calculated based on the distance in terms of hop counts that measures how far apart between the user and s/he peer is. The distance is estimated by referring to relation as well as how acquainted the test user is with respect to some verified icons (public figures which have already been verified by the social network administrators) in social networks. Our TI algorithm also could enlist a group of people whose TIs fall below a given threshold, these are the users that need to be cautious about. 

KeywordSocial Network Security Trust Index
DOI10.1109/WI-IAT.2012.84
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Indexed ByCPCI-S
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science, Theory & Methods ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS IDWOS:000423017600057
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84878446191
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Document TypeConference paper
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AffiliationDepartment of Computer and Information Science University of Macau Macau SAR, China
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Rui Tang,Luke Lu,Yan Zhuang,et al. Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: An Online Trust Indexing Algorithm[C]:IEEE, 2013, 280-285.
APA Rui Tang., Luke Lu., Yan Zhuang., & Simon Fong (2013). Not Every Friend on a Social Network Can be Trusted: An Online Trust Indexing Algorithm. Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Workshops, WI-IAT 2012, 280-285.
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