CSCI 6963 Computational and Social Trust¶

Topics¶

Introduction
- Algorithmic accountability
- Machine intelligence makes human morals more important, Zeynep Tufekci
Additional reading:
- Algorithmic Harms Beyond Facebook And Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency, Zeynep Tufekci
Trust concepts, basic definitions
- Trust as a computational concept (Chapter 2, Modeling Trust Context in Networks, Sibel Adali, Springer Brief, 2013)
Social cognition of trust
Relationships and trust in social networks
Trust, reciprocity and decision making
Trusting information
- Developing a unifying framework of credibility assessment: Construct, heuristics, and interaction in context Brian Hilligoss and Soo Young Rieh Information Processing and Management 44(4), 2008 pp. 1467–1484 (Requires RPI Login)
- Misinformation and Its Correction: Continued Influence and Successful Debiasing Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K. H. Ecker, Colleen M. Seifert, Norbert Schwarz, and John Cook Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 13(3) 106–131
Trust modeling
- A logic for uncertain probabilities. Audun Josang (2001). International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 9(3), 279–311.
- Cumulative and averaging fusion of beliefs. Audun Josang, Javier Diaz and Maria Rifqi. Information Fusion, 11 (2010), 192-200.
- Formal Trust Model for Multiagent Systems. Yonghong Wang and Munindar Singh, Proceedings of IJCAI, 2007.
- Supporting Trust in Virtual Communities. Alfarez Abdul-Rahman and Stephen Hailes. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICCS)
Trust Propagation
- Social Network-based Trust in Prioritized Default Logic, Yarden Katz and Jennifer Golbeck. Proceedings of AAAI 2006.
- Operators for propagating trust and their evaluation in social networks. Chung-Wei Hang, Yonghong Wang and Munindar Singh (2009). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Volume 2, 1025–1032.
- Network algorithms: Centrality, Pagerank, Trust Pagerank, Hits
- Propagation of Trust and Distrust. R. Guha, Ravi Kumar, Prabhakar Raghavan and Andrew Tomkins. Proceedings of WWW 2004.
- Foundations of Trust and Distrust in Networks - Extended Structural Balance Theory, Yi Qian and Sibel Adali (2014). ACM Transactions on the Web.
Mapping observed values to trust
- Trust and Nuanced Profile Similarity in Online Social Networks, Jennifer Golbeck, ACM Transactions on the Web, 2009, 3(4).
- Operators for propagating trust and their evaluation in social networks. Chung-Wei Hang, Yonghong Wang and Munindar Singh (2009). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Volume 2, 1025–1032.
- Actions speak as loud as words: predicting relationships from social behavior data, Sibel Adali, Fred Sisenda and Malik Magdon-Ismail, Proceedings of WWW 2012.
Trust Applications

Tuesday, April 11
- Trust-aware recommender systems. Paolo Massa and Paolo Avesani. In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems (RecSys ‘07)
- Gradual trust and distrust in recommender systems. Victor, P., Cornelis, C., De Cock, M., & Pinheiro da Silva, P. (2009). Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 160(10), 1367–1382.
Friday, April 14
- The eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in p2p networks. Kamvar, S., Schlosser, M., & Garcia-Molina, H. (2003). Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on World Wide Web, 640–651.
- PeerTrust: supporting reputation-based trust for peer-to-peer electronic communities. Li Xiong and Ling Liu. IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, 16(7), 2004.
Friday, April 21
- Improved trust-aware recommender system using small-worldness of trust networks. Yuan, W., Guan, D., Lee, Y.-K., Lee, S., & Hur, S. J. (2010). Knowledge-Based Systems, 23(3), 232–238.
- G”{u}ven: Estimating Trust from Agents’ Communications. Kalia, A. K., Zhang, Z., & Singh, M. (2016). Journal of Trust Management, 1–19.
To be decided
- Propagation Models for Trust and Distrust in Social Networks, Cai-Nicolas Ziegler and Georg Lausen, Information Systems Frontiers 7:4/5, 337–358, 2005.
- Exploiting Emotional Information for Trust/Distrust Prediction. Beigi, G., Tang, J., Wang, S., & Liu, H. (2016). Sdm, 81–89. http://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974348.10
- Toward a testbed for evaluating computational trust models: experiments and analysis. Chandrasekaran, P., & Esfandiari, B. (2015). Journal of Trust Management, 1–27. http://doi.org/10.1186/s40493-015-0019-z
- Hoff, K. A., & Bashir, M. (2015). Trust in Automation. Human Factors, 57(3), 407–434. http://doi.org/10.1177/0018720814547570
- Sequence-based trust in collaborative filtering for document recommendation, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 69(9), pages 587-601, 2011, Duen-Ren Liu, Chin-Hui Lai, Hsuan Chiu
- An empirical comparison of social, collaborative filtering, and hybrid recommenders, Alejandro Bellogin, Ivan Cantador, Fernando Diez, Pablo Castells, and Enrique Chavarriaga, ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 4, 1, Article 14 (February 2013)

Indices and tables¶