Introduction
Recent years have witnessed the
transition of the Web from an
information repository service to a
social and business platform. New,
unprecedented services are available on
the Web that capitalize on the social
aspects of user communities.
Crowd-sourcing, user-generated content,
folksonomies, social computing, are all
examples of services that were made
possible by the recent shift in
application design paradigms. Such
services offer to many people a
framework for organizing their private
and professional lives. Unfortunately,
low publishing barriers impact the
quality of the content on the Web.
Pseudo-anonymity of Web users combined
with strong financial incentives
encourage many users to perform
malicious activities. These activities
range from relatively harmless (e.g.
trolling), through irritating (e.g.
spamming), up to criminal (e.g. online
auction fraud). In order to protect the
community of users from malevolent
wrong-doers, new tools and techniques
need to be developed. To guarantee the
trustworthiness of content, mechanisms
for managing its quality, assessing the
associated risk, and judge about trust
must be designed and implemented to
enable the emergence of fairness in Web
environments.
Topics of Interest
The objective of the workshop is to
create a common space for researchers
and practitioners of trust, risk and
reputation management to collaborate,
exchange and discuss ideas, case
studies, and solutions. The management
of trust, risk and reputation, as well
as recommendation engines, are
ubiquitous in Web environments. They
apply to webpages, blogs, social
networks, Internet forums, P2P
networks, online auction markets, and
business to business markets, to name a
few. Hence, workshop topic list is very
broad and includes (not exclusively):
- anomaly and spam detection in social networks
- link and webpage spamming
- P2P ranking and spamming
- fairness in P2P networks
- information quality, trust and reputation management in the blogosphere
- social role discovery in Internet forums
- reputation of Internet forum community members
- trust and reputation in online auctions
- risk analysis and risk propensity
- trust in recommender systems
- Web information retrieval for improving access to qualitative information