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SocialTrust++: Building Community-Based Trust in Social Information Systems James Caverlee, Zhiyuan Cheng, Brian Eoff, Chiao-Fang Hsu, Krishna Kamath, Said Kashoob, Jeremy Kelley, Elham Khabiri, and Kyumin Lee Department of Computer Science and Engineering Texas AM University College Station, TX 77845 Contact email: caverlee@ Abstract—Social information systems – popularized by Face- cialized knowledge, serendipitous discovery of new resources book, Wikipedia, Twitter, and other social websites – are beyond the scope and intent of the original system designers, emerging as a powerful new paradigm for distributed social- and so on. But the relative openness and self-supervision of powered information management. While there has been growing interest in these systems by businesses, government agencies, and many Social Information Systems places great demands on universities, there remain important open challenges that must users to ascertain the relative quality and authority of other be addressed if the potential of these social systems is to be users in these systems, of the messages passed between users, fully realized. For example, the presence of poor quality users of resources encountered, of facts asserted, and so on. and users intent on manipulating the system can disrupt the At one extreme, malicious adversaries have been observed quality of socially-powered information and knowledge sharing to exploit the perceived social bonds inherent in Social Infor- a