GePuTTIS: General Purpose Transitive Trust Inference System for Social Networks

Recent work has explored the idea of using trust networks to supplement ratings information in community-based information systems, including algorithms to infer missing values in the trust network. GePuTTIS is a trust inference system that reasons about support levels, distrust, and trust scope.

Nobarany, S., Haraty, M., and Cosley, D. (2008). GePuTTIS: General Purpose Transitive Trust Inference System for Social Networks. AAAI 2008 Social Information Processing Spring Symposium, Palo Alto, CA.

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