Trust is one of the most important factors for participants’ decision-making in Online Social Networks (OSNs). The trust network from a source to a target without any prior interaction contains some important intermediate participants, the trust relations between the participants, and the social context, each of which has an important influence on trust evaluation. Thus, before performing any t...

Each society has a social health definition based on its characteristics. One of the important and influential factors on social health is the level of social consensus in society. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of social consensus on social health. The statistical population of the study is all citizens living in Tehran. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster sampli...

the main questions of paper are what are indicators of social development? what is the weight of each of the selected social development indices with weights valuation (entropy), based on 2007 data in iran? how is rating of social development indicators based on the weight of them in iran's provinces and what is the relationship between the scores of social capital and social development s...

Recent years we have witnessed the rapid growth of social commerce in China, but many users are not willing to trust and use social commerce. So improving consumers’ trust and purchase intention has become a crucial factor in the success of social commerce. Business factors, environment factors and social factors including twelve secondary indexes build up a social commerce trust evaluation mod...

The construction of social networks over mobile devices in the events or at locations has emerged as a new network paradigm. These new mobile social networks enable people to communicate and share their experiences without the need to have Internet access and with minimum required infrastructure. However, the functionality and security of such networks would be potentially undermined without an...

In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...