Proceedings of the 2009 International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS '09
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Social internetworking systems are a significantly emerging new reality; they group together a set of social networks and allow their users to share resources, to acquire opinions and, more in general, to interact, even if these users belong to different social networks and, therefore, did not previously know each other. In this context the notions of trust and reputation play a very relevant role. These notions have been widely studied in the past in several contexts whereas they have been largely neglected in the social internetworking research; however, since this application field presents several peculiarities, the results found in other application contexts are not automatically valid here. This paper introduces a model to represent and handle trust and reputation in a social internetworking system and proposes an approach that exploits these parameters to provide users with suggestions about the most reliable persons they can contact or social networks they can register to.