%0 Conference Paper %1 guha2004rating %A Guha, R %B 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web %D 2004 %K open rating trust %T Open rating systems %U http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/open_rating_systems/wot.pdf %X In the offline world, we look to the people we trust and those they trust for reliable information. In this paper, we present a computational model of this phenomenon and show how it can be used to identify high quality content in an Open Rating System, i.e., a system in which any user can rate content. We present a case study (Epinions.com) of a system based on this model and describe a new platform called PeopleNet for harnessing this phenomenon in an open distributed fashion.

@inproceedings{guha2004rating, abstract = {In the offline world, we look to the people we trust and those they trust for reliable information. In this paper, we present a computational model of this phenomenon and show how it can be used to identify high quality content in an Open Rating System, i.e., a system in which any user can rate content. We present a case study (Epinions.com) of a system based on this model and describe a new platform called PeopleNet for harnessing this phenomenon in an open distributed fashion.}, added-at = {2010-10-13T14:13:41.000+0200}, author = {Guha, R}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/257ae21fc256d225e99dff9b74ea1e243/jaeschke}, booktitle = {1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web}, interhash = {5c7e0fa8ee4d5a1e204a7153e346e37e}, intrahash = {57ae21fc256d225e99dff9b74ea1e243}, keywords = {open rating trust}, month = sep, timestamp = {2014-07-28T15:57:31.000+0200}, title = {Open rating systems}, url = {http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/open_rating_systems/wot.pdf}, year = 2004 }