Sharif Digital Repository

Social networks let the people find and know other people and benefit form their information. Semantic Web standard ontologies support social network sites for making use of other social networks information and hence help their expansion and unification, making them a huge social network. As social networks are public virtual social places much information may exist in them that may not be trustworthy to all. A mechanism in needed to rate coming news, reviews and opinions about a definite subject from users, according to each user preference. There should be a feature for users to specify how much they trust a friend and a mechanism to infer the trust from one user to another that is not...