Introduction to Computing with Social Trust

The Web is deep into its second decade of life, and since 1991 it has dramatically changed the way the connected world operates. As the Web has shifted to an interactive environment where much content is created by users, the question of whom to trust and what information to trust has become both more important and more difficult to answer. One promising solution is using social trust relationships. In this book, we examine challenging research problems on computing with social trust, including the computation of trust relationships and the use of these relationships in applications.