Trust Prediction in Co-Space: A Data Driven Approach (Social Network Mining@SMU)

Faculty Members and Collaborators

Research Staff

Ph.D Student

Jianshu Weng, Ee-Peng Lim, Jing Jiang, and Qi He, TwitterRank: Finding Topic-sensitive Influential Twitterers. Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2010), New York City, February 2010.
Ee-Peng Lim, Viet-An Nguyen, Aixin Sun, Jing Jiang, and Hwee Hoon Tan, To Trust or Not to Trust? Predicting Online Trusts using Trust Antecedent Framework. IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2009), Miami, Florida, December 6-9, 2009.
Nan Ma, Ee-Peng Lim, Viet-An Nguyen, Aixin Sun, Haifeng Liu, Trust Relationship Prediction Using Online Product Review Data. ACM CIKM Workshop on Complex Networks in Information and Knowledge Management (CNIKM2009), Hong Kong, November 2009.
Haifeng Liu, Ee-Peng Lim, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Minh-Tam Le, Aixin Sun, Jaideep Srivastava, Young-Ae Kim, Predicting Trusts among Users of Online Communities - An Epinions Case Study. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC2008), Chicago, July 2008.

Young-Ae Kim, Hady W. Lauw, Ee-Peng Lim, Jaideep Srivastava, Building a Web of Trust without Explicit Trust Ratings, ICDE Workshop on Data Engineering for Blogs, Social Media, and Web 2.0, in conjunction with 24th International Conference on Data Engineering, Cancun, Mexico, April 2008.

Note: The files below are only downloadable by SMU group members within SMU's network.

Wavelet transformation based event detection (Nov 23, 2009)
Mining Propagation Rules of Trust and Distrust (Nov 16, 2009)
Preliminary of event detection on the crawled Twitter Data (Nov 9, 2009)
Survey of event detection (Sept 28, 2009)
Analysis of Distrust: User Similarity/Propagation Patterns (Sept 14, 2009)
Social Tie Strength (Sept 7, 2009)
Analysis of Distrust Relationships in the Extended Epinions dataset (Aug 31, 2009)
Finding Topic Specific Influential Users in Twitter (working paper) (Aug 31, 2009)
Topic-specific relationship network construction (Jul 16, 2009)
Interim summary
Topic-specific twitterer ranking (Jul 9, 2009)
Entities and Social Network on Slashdot.org (Jul 9, 2009)
Modeling and Propagating Distrust (Jun 4, 2009)
More preliminary results about Twitter data (May 28, 2009, accompanying data)
Some basic analysis about Twitter data (May 7, 2009, updated with after-note on May 9, 2009)
Trust Prediction with Controversial Users (Mar 3, 2009)
User-User Trust Framework - Initial Ideas (Feb 20, 2009)

Community Gravity: Measuring Bidirectional Effects by Trust and Rating on Online Social Networks (May 5, 2009 by Cane Leung)
Operators for Propagating Trust and their Evaluation in Social Networks (Apr 28, 2009 by Jianshu Weng)
SUNNY: A New Algorithm for Trust Inference in Social Networks Using Probabilistic Confidence Models (Apr 14, 2009 by Viet An Nguyen)
Maximizing the Spread of Influence through a Social Network (Mar 24, 2009 by Jianshu Weng)
Controversial Users Demand Local Trust Metrics: an Experimental Study on Epinions.com Community (Mar 10, 2009 by Cane Leung)
Whom Should I Trust? The Impact of Key Figures on Cold Start Recommendations (Jan 20, 2009 by Cane Leung)

Datasets provided by CAW 2.0 (Workshop on Content Analysis for the Web 2.0, in conjunction with WWW2009) - Slashdot, Twitter, etc.
Datasets used in recent publications of DAI -Labor - Delicious and Slashdot.
Epinions and Extended Epinions datasets on TrustLet

Social Network Mining@SMU