Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications Export

@incollection{citeulike:6075104, abstract = {The Social Web constitutes a shift in information flow from the traditional Web. Previously, content was provided by the owners of a website, for consumption by the end-user. Nowadays, these websites are being replaced by Social Web applications which are frameworks for the publication of user-provided content. Traditionally, Web content could be 'trusted' to some extent based on the site it originated from. Algorithms such as Google's PageRank were (and still are) used to compute the importance of a website, based on analysis of underlying link topology. In the Social Web, analysis of link topology merely tells us about the importance of the information framework which hosts the content. Consumers of information still need to know about the importance/reliability of the content they are reading, and therefore about the reliability of the producers of that content. Research into trust and reputation of the producers of information in the Social Web is still very much in its infancy. Every day, people are forced to make trusting decisions about strangers on the Web based on a very limited amount of information. For example, purchasing a product from an eBay seller with a 'reputation' of 99\%, downloading a file from a peer-to-peer application such as Bit-Torrent, or allowing Amazon.com tell you what products you will like. Even something as simple as reading comments on a Web-blog requires the consumer to make a trusting decision about the quality of that information. In all of these example cases, and indeed throughout the Social Web, there is a pressing demand for increased information upon which we can make trusting decisions. This chapter examines the diversity of sources from which trust information can be harnessed within Social Web applications and discusses a high level classification of those sources. Three different techniques for harnessing and using trust from a range of sources are presented. These techniques are deployed in two sample Social Web applications—a recommender system and an online auction. In all cases, it is shown that harnessing an increased amount of information upon which to make trust decisions greatly enhances the user experience with the Social Web application.}, author = {O'Donovan, John}, citeulike-article-id = {6075104}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_9}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/x585u23j33175371}, doi = {10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_9}, journal = {Computing with Social Trust}, keywords = {application, capturing, learning, mining, social, socialnetwork, trust, web}, pages = {213--257}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 16:18:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_9}, year = {2009} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:6075104 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6075104 N2 - The Social Web constitutes a shift in information flow from the traditional Web. Previously, content was provided by the owners of a website, for consumption by the end-user. Nowadays, these websites are being replaced by Social Web applications which are frameworks for the publication of user-provided content. Traditionally, Web content could be ‘trusted’ to some extent based on the site it originated from. Algorithms such as Google’s PageRank were (and still are) used to compute the importance of a website, based on analysis of underlying link topology. In the Social Web, analysis of link topology merely tells us about the importance of the information framework which hosts the content. Consumers of information still need to know about the importance/reliability of the content they are reading, and therefore about the reliability of the producers of that content. Research into trust and reputation of the producers of information in the Social Web is still very much in its infancy. Every day, people are forced to make trusting decisions about strangers on the Web based on a very limited amount of information. For example, purchasing a product from an eBay seller with a ‘reputation’ of 99%, downloading a file from a peer-to-peer application such as Bit-Torrent, or allowing Amazon.com tell you what products you will like. Even something as simple as reading comments on a Web-blog requires the consumer to make a trusting decision about the quality of that information. In all of these example cases, and indeed throughout the Social Web, there is a pressing demand for increased information upon which we can make trusting decisions. This chapter examines the diversity of sources from which trust information can be harnessed within Social Web applications and discusses a high level classification of those sources. Three different techniques for harnessing and using trust from a range of sources are presented. These techniques are deployed in two sample Social Web applications—a recommender system and an online auction. In all cases, it is shown that harnessing an increased amount of information upon which to make trust decisions greatly enhances the user experience with the Social Web application. JF - Computing with Social Trust EP - 257 TI - Capturing Trust in Social Web Applications SP - 213 KW - application KW - capturing KW - learning KW - mining KW - social KW - socialnetwork KW - trust KW - web AU - O’Donovan, John PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9_9 ER -