Practical aggregation operators for gradual trust and distrust
Fuzzy Sets and SystemsPublished 31 October 2010Open access
Patricia Victor, Chris Cornelis, Martine De Cock, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
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This paper studies bilattice-based aggregation approaches and investigates how they can be improved by using ordered weighted averaging techniques, or through the incorporation of knowledge defects.
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Trust and distrust are two increasingly important metrics in social networks, reflecting users ’ attitudes and relationships towards each other. In this paper, we study the indirect derivation of these metrics ’ values for users that do not know each other, but are connected through the network. In particular, we study bilattice-based aggregation approaches and investigate how they can be improved by using ordered weighted averaging techniques, or through the incorporation of knowledge defects. Experiments on a real world data set from CouchSurfing.org demonstrate that the best operators from a theoretical perspective are not always the most suitable ones in practice, and that the sophisticated aggregation methods can outperform the more obvious bilattice-based approaches.
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