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Recommending with limited number of trusted users in social networks
2018 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2018
  • Weiwei Yuan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Donghai Guan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Zayed University
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-4-2018
Abstract

© 2018 IEEE. To estimate the reliability of an unknown node in social networks, existing works involve as many opinions from other nodes as possible. Though this makes it possible to approximate the real property of the unknown nodes, the computational complexity increases as the scale of social networks getting bigger and bigger. We therefore propose a novel method which involve only limited number of social relations to predict the trustworthiness of the unknown nodes. The proposed method involves four rating prediction mechanisms: FM use the recommendation given by the most reliable recommender with the shortest trust propagation distance from the active user as the predicted rating, FMW weights the recommendation in FM, FA uses the mean value of recommendations with the shortest trust propagation distance from the active user as the predicted rating, and FAW weights recommendations in FA. The simulation results show that the proposed method can greatly reduce the rating prediction calculation, while the rating prediction losses are reasonable.

ISBN
9781538643662
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Disciplines
Keywords
  • node reliability,
  • social computing,
  • social networks,
  • trusted user
Scopus ID
85048471162
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1109/IACS.2018.8355437
Citation Information
Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan and Asad Masood Khattak. "Recommending with limited number of trusted users in social networks" 2018 9th International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, ICICS 2018 Vol. 2018-January (2018) p. 31 - 36
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/asad-khattak/72/