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<p>Computational Trust Models and Machine Learning provides a detailed introduction to the concept of trust and its application in various computer science areas, including multi-agent systems, online social networks, and communication systems. Identifying trust modeling challenges that cannot be addressed by traditional approaches, this book:</p> <ul> <li>Explains how reputation-based systems are used to determine trust in diverse online communities</li> <li>Describes how machine learning techniques are employed to build robust reputation systems</li> <li>Explores two distinctive approaches to determining credibility of resources—one where the human role is implicit, and one that leverages human input explicitly</li> <li>Shows how decision support can be facilitated by computational trust models</li> <li>Discusses collaborative filtering-based trust aware recommendation systems</li> <li>Defines a framework for translating a trust modeling problem into a learning problem</li> <li>Investigates the objectivity of human feedback, emphasizing the need to filter out outlying opinions</li></ul> <p><b>Computational Trust Models and Machine Learning </b>effectively demonstrates how novel machine learning techniques can improve the accuracy of trust assessment.</p>