Credibility

Web Credibility: Features Exploration and Credibility Prediction

The open nature of the World Wide Web makes evaluating webpage credibility challenging for users. In this paper, we aim to automatically assess web credibility by investigating various characteristics of webpages. Specifically, we first identify features from textual content, link structure, webpages design, as well as their social popularity learned from popular social media sites (e.g., Faceb...

Credibility Theory

This survey of actuarial credibility theory traces its origins, describes its evolutionary history, gives an account of its main issues and results, and assesses its merits with a view to related work in statistical science. Key-words: Experience rating, limited fluctuation theory, greatest accuracy theory, Bayes, linear Bayes, empirical Bayes, hierarchical models, Hilbert space methods, recurs...

Testing Credibility

Credibility Models

We present a general hierarchical Bayesian model where Intelligence Sources make Reports about events or states in the world, which we call Hypotheses. The underlying multi-entity Bayes net for even a simple scenario has hundreds of nodes. We hide the details via Wigmore diagrams and a Google Maps GUI. Our application domain is Intelligence data fusion in asymmetrical warfare (terrorism). Some ...

Credibility and Computing Technology Credibility and Computing Technology

But like many aspects of our human society, computers seem to be facing a credibility crisis. Due in part to the popularization of the Internet, the cultural myth of the highly credible computer may soon be history. Although healthy skepticism about computers can be a good thing, if the pendulum swings too far in this direction, computers—especially with respect to Web-based content—could be vi...