I have implemented my new trust metric, and applied it (fairly crudely) to LiveJournal friends lists as an experiment. The result is a tool that tells you who is "closest" to your friends list who isn't actually on it, like "popfriends" but more sophisticated.

Who is closest to your friends list?Let me know how plausible the results seem to you ( Read more... )

Here's a simple trust metric. As usual, nodes are people and directed arcs denote that A confers trust onto B ( Read more... )

I've implemented Bram's probablistic trust metric: see this Advogato diary entry:

http://www.advogato.org/person/ciphergoth/diary.html?start=5

Update: - just got mail from Bram indicating that this isn't the metric he wanted to propose. More to follow.

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Taken from a discussion in Advogato.

Trust metrication criteria

Bram - I think your ideas about criteria are the Right Thing and I've been thinking some of the same things myself. However I think I can list three desirable criteria and prove you can't have all three ( Read more... )

It's possible no-one else will ever join this community, but that's OK, I can use it as a private dumping ground for some of my notes on the subject ( Read more... )

This is a community for discussion of trust metrics, as might be used on LiveJournal or elsewhere ( Read more... )