Trust-based protocols for regulating online, friend-of-a-friend communities

Trust-based protocols for regulating online, friend-of-a-friend communities

An online community is a group whose members are connected by means of information technologies, typically the Internet rather than face to face. Online communities allow social and cultural barriers to be spanned for communication. Social communities rely on interpersonal trust to regulate cohesion in their communities. After a general discussion, we offer protocols that extend viability of fr...

Analyzing and Enhancing Routing Protocols for Friend-to-Friend Overlays

A Profile-based Friend Detection Scheme for Online Social Networks

In past few years, users created friends with every other World Health Organization live or work near them, like neighbor or work place etc. this kind of friendly relationship is named as ancient means of constructing friends or G. Friend referred to as geographical primarily based friends .Now social networking services recommend friends to users based on their social graphs, which may not be ...

Value of a friend, a friend of your friend, and a friend of the friend of your friend: Social discounting in n degrees of separation

Jones and Rachlin (2008) found that the amount of money a person is willing to forgo in order to give $75 to another person decreased as a hyperbolic function of perceived social distance, in the same way as occurs in intertemporal choice. This study aimed to extend this finding to the domain of social networks, in which social distance is defined by degrees of separation. A total of 334 partic...

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