Abstract:Mining web user trust relationship is important in web information credibility analysis. Motivated by the imprecise nature of trustiness, we propose a novel web user trust prediction method based on evidence theory, which uses user ratings to infer trust relationships between users, where each rating score is treated as an evidence. The method first generates basic probability assignments with training sample set using classical statistics; then, integrates conflict resolution rules and D-S evidence combinatio… Show more
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