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Trust in Blogosphere

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Reputation; Relationship of reliance

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Trust can be defined as the relationship of reliance between two parties or individuals. Alice trusts Bob implies Alice’s reliance on the actions of Bob, based on what they know about each other. Trust is basically prediction of an otherwise unknown decision made by a party or an individual based on the actions of another party or individual. Trust is always directional and asymmetric. Alice trusts Bob does not imply Bob also trusts Alice.

From a sociological perspective, trust is the measure of belief of one party in another’s honesty, benevolence, and competence. Absence of any of these properties causes failure of trust. From a psychological perspective, trust can be defined as the ability of a party or an individual to influence the other. The more trusting someone is the more easily (s)he can be influenced.

The past several years witnessed significant changes in the interactions between the individuals and groups....

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  1. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Nitin Agarwal & Huan Liu

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Agarwal, N., Liu, H. (2009). Trust in Blogosphere. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_438

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