Abstract Advances in Online Social Networks is creating huge data day in and out providing
lot of opportunities to its users to express their interest and opinion. Due to the popularity …

The introduction of trust-based approaches in social scenarios modeled as multi-agent
systems (MAS) has been recognized as a valid solution to improve the effectiveness of these …

In real and virtual communities, complex and sophisticated forms of social interactions and
cooperation are increasingly taking place between heterogeneous actors such as people …

With the increased popularity of Questions and Answers (Q&A) platforms, especially as a
means to efficient customer support management, a lot of research has been carried out in …

Abstract In the Internet of Things, smart objects can build multidimensional and context-
sensitive network infrastructures potentially rich of social interactions. Smart objects can be …

Due to over-abundant information on the Web, information filtering becomes a key task for
online users to obtain relevant suggestions and how to extract the most related item is …

Software agents can form multidimensional, relationship based networks potentially able to
realize not trivial forms of interaction and cooperation among agents. In similar contexts …

SureMsg is a trustworthy email service that is based on the instant messaging (IM) platform
and which scores the reputation level of email sender by both: global reputation value and …

The governments of cities like Ambato face difficult geographic conditions for establishing a
clean and efficient transportation system. This paper shows the results of 1) a theoretical …

Due to the increasing importance of trust in online transactions, the seller reputation system
has become a widely used method for creating trust among the transactors and providing …