Abstract—In many eCommerce websites and consumer review websites, users can review products they purchased as well as the reviews others wrote. Users can also rate each other as trusted or untrusted relationships. By studying a data set from Epinions, we examine and quantify the correlation between trust/distrust relationships among the users and their ratings of the reviews. We discover that there is a strong alignment between the opinions of one’s friends and his/her ratings. Our findings also suggest that there is a strong alignment between the collective opinion of a user’s friends and the formation of his/her future relationships. I
<div><p>Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation ...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming popular and attracting lots of participants. In OSN based...
Prompted by the popularity of social commerce in the past few years, this study seeks to examine how...
Many eCommerce websites and consumer review websites provide both reviews of products and a social n...
Online product-related opinion sharing is prevalent and effective in shaping consumers' purchasing d...
Online product-related opinion sharing is prevalent and effective in shaping consumers’ purchasing d...
Viral marketing seeks to maximize the spread of a campaign through an online social network, often t...
With the recognition of the significance of OSNs (Online Social Networks) in the recommendation of s...
Social relationships have long been recognised for their role in shaping consumers\u27 opinions and ...
Online recommendation systems provide useful information to users on various products and also allow...
On-line platforms foster the communication capabilities of the Internet to develop large-scale influ...
Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation in onlin...
Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation in onlin...
Social commerce is a rapidly expanding sub-category of e-commerce that uses social media to support ...
This study evaluates the influence of opinion leaders on other users in a social network and investi...
<div><p>Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation ...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming popular and attracting lots of participants. In OSN based...
Prompted by the popularity of social commerce in the past few years, this study seeks to examine how...
Many eCommerce websites and consumer review websites provide both reviews of products and a social n...
Online product-related opinion sharing is prevalent and effective in shaping consumers' purchasing d...
Online product-related opinion sharing is prevalent and effective in shaping consumers’ purchasing d...
Viral marketing seeks to maximize the spread of a campaign through an online social network, often t...
With the recognition of the significance of OSNs (Online Social Networks) in the recommendation of s...
Social relationships have long been recognised for their role in shaping consumers\u27 opinions and ...
Online recommendation systems provide useful information to users on various products and also allow...
On-line platforms foster the communication capabilities of the Internet to develop large-scale influ...
Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation in onlin...
Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation in onlin...
Social commerce is a rapidly expanding sub-category of e-commerce that uses social media to support ...
This study evaluates the influence of opinion leaders on other users in a social network and investi...
<div><p>Despite enormous recent efforts in detecting the mechanism of the social relation formation ...
Online Social Networks (OSNs) are becoming popular and attracting lots of participants. In OSN based...
Prompted by the popularity of social commerce in the past few years, this study seeks to examine how...