This book has evolved out of roughly ve years of working on computing with social trust. In the beginning, getting people to accept that social networks and the relationships in them could be the basis for interesting, relevant, and exciting c- puter science was a struggle. Today, social networking and social computing have become hot topics, and those of us doing research in this space are nally nding a wealth of opportunities to share our work and to collaborate with others. This book is a collection of chapters that cover all the major areas of research in this space. I hope it will serve as a guide to students and researchers who want a strong introduction to work in the eld, and as encouragement and direction for those who are considering bringing their own techniques to bear on some of these problems. It has been an honor and privilege to work with these authors for whom I have so much respect and admiration. Thanks to all of them for their outstanding work, which speaks for itself, and for patiently enduringall my emails. Thanks, as always, to Jim Hendler for his constant support. Cai Ziegler has been particularly helpful, both as a collaborator, and in the early stages of development for this book. My appreciation also goes to Beverley Ford, Rebecca Mowat and everyone at Springer who helped with publication of this work.

Keywords

Internet
control
e-commerce
knowledge
recommender systems
security
semantic web
trust

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"Social trust is becoming fundamental in computer science (CS), distributed systems, multiagent systems, e-commerce, and communication. This book provides a survey of the computational trust field. … This is a commendable effort by the editor to consolidate the growing literature on computational trust in a single volume. … it is a useful reference for both theorists and practitioners in the field of computational trust." (Haris Aziz, ACM Computing Reviews, May, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

University of Maryland, USA

Jennifer Golbeck

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Computing with Social Trust
Editors: Jennifer Golbeck
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-356-9
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84800-355-2Published: 28 November 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84996-793-8Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84800-356-9Published: 16 November 2008
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 336
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Computers and Society

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction to Computing with Social Trust

Front Matter

Models of Social Trust

Front Matter

Propagation of Trust

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Applications of Trust

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Back Matter

About this book

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University of Maryland, USA

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