Higher Order Trust Ranking of LinkedIn Accounts with Iterative Matrix Methods

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Publication Date

11-1-2022

Abstract

Trust is a fundamental sociotechnological mainstay of the Web today. There is substantial evidence about this since netizens implicitly or explicitly agree to trust virtually every Web service they use ranging from Web-based mail to e-commerce portals. Moreover the methodological framework for trusting individual netizens, primarily their identity and communications, has considerably progressed. Nevertheless, the core of fact checking for human generated content is still far from being substantially automated as most proposed smart algorithms capture inadequately fundamental human traits. One such case is the evaluation of the profile trustworthiness of LinkedIn members based on publicly available attributes available from the platform itself. A trusted profile may indirectly indicate a more suitable candidate since its contents can be easily verified. In this article a first order graph search mechanism for discovering LinkedIn trusted profiles based on a random walker is extended to higher order ranking based on a combination of functional and connectivity patterns. Results are derived for the same benchmark dataset and the first- and higher-order approaches are compared in terms of accuracy.

ISSN

0218-2130

Publisher

World Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

Volume

31

Issue

7

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Keywords

attribute engineering, Higher order metrics, Krylov methods, matrix iterative methods, stationary methods, trust composition models, trust ranking, Web trust

Scopus ID

85142721244

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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