Trust Calculation with Ant Colony Optimization in Online Social Networks

Shashvat Sanadhya, Shailendra Singh
2015 Procedia Computer Science  
Real world lives in the 'Aeon' of virtual connectivity; social network is a platform where people share emotions, activities, relation etc. Second generation online social networking online comes in existence with service-oriented environment, In which lots of service requester and service provider, connect to each other with many different paths. Among 'N' number of path finding a trust path for trustworthy services is major task. In this paper with the help of ant colony optimization (ACO) we
more » ... are calculating trust path, trust cycle. Hence we are proposing an algorithm (Trust-ACO) to calculate trust in online social network. Trust calculation is based on probabilistic trust rule, social intimacy pheromone.
doi:10.1016/j.procs.2015.06.021 fatcat:ti5lc2xl3nd6fnvqqxepr6kybq