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Information Systems Frontiers 7:4/5, 337–358, 2005 C 2005 Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. Manufactured in The Netherlands. Propagation Models for Trust and Distrust in Social Networks Cai-Nicolas Ziegler and Georg Lausen Institut f¨ur Informatik, Universit¨at Freiburg, Georges-K¨ohler-Allee, Geb¨aude 51, 79110 Freiburg i.Br., Germany E-mail: cziegler@informatik.uni-freiburg.de; lausen@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Abstract. Semantic Web endeavors have mainly focused on issues an agent has about another’s future behavior based on pertaining to knowledge representation and ontology design. the history of their encounters” (Mui, Mohtashemi and However, besides understanding information metadata stated by Halberstadt, 2002), to only small numbers of people. subjects, knowing about their credibility becomes equally cru- cial. Hence, trust and trust metrics, conceived as computational These people, again, trust another limited set of people, means to evaluate trust relationships between individuals, come and so forth. The network structure emanating from our into play. Our major contribution to Semantic Web trust manage- very person, composed of trust statements linking in- ment through this work is twofold. First, we introduce a classifi- dividuals, constitutes the basis for trusting people we cation scheme for trust metrics along various axes and discuss do not know personally. Playing an important role for advantages and dra