A Computational Trust Framework for Social Computing (A Position Paper for Panel Discussion on Social Computing Foundations)

Social computing is the backbone of the increasing socialized web applications, which more and more people are tending to intensively rely on. Trust is a critical element for social computing that has been involved into many computational systems. It is a topic intriguing numerous studies. In this paper, we present a novel Computational Trust Framework based on the perspective of information sharing. Our Framework is able to quantify the trust value for a given message. To our best knowledge, this is the first time that trust is measured under information reliability and Entropy. We also explain our work with real-life examples.