Diverse and Dynamic Trust Evaluation in Online Social Networks

This project aims to deliver innovative techniques to enable trustworthy online social network environments to benefit social networking users in Australia and internationally. This project expects to generate a new knowledge base by systematically devising innovative solutions of trust evaluation from a fundamental perspective. Expected outcomes of this project include innovative solutions and models to evaluate the trust between users, and identify dynamic trust networks. The resulting techniques from this project can benefit individuals, business organisations, government, and society, considerably improving their abilities for better understanding the regulations of trust establishment and better supporting high-quality online social network based applications, thereby generating enormous social and economic values.