A review on trust propagation and opinion dynamics in social networks and group decision making frameworks
Information SciencesPublished 19 November 2018Open access
Raquel Ureña, Gang Kou, Yucheng Dong, Francisco Chiclana, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma
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This contribution surveys the progress in understanding the new possibilities and challenges that trust and reputation systems pose, and identifies challenges and research opportunities on how the so called trust based network can be leveraged as an influence measure to foster decision making processes and recommendation mechanisms in complex social networks scenarios with uncertain knowledge.
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