A visual interaction consensus model for social network group decision making with trust propagation
Knowledge-Based SystemsPublished 26 January 2017
Jian Wu, Francisco Chiclana, Hamido Fujita, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
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Dual trust propagation is investigated to connect incomplete trust relationship by trusted third partners, in a way that it can fit intuition in these cases: trust values decrease while distrust values increase.
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