Ranking online quality and reputation via the user activity

Xiao-Lu Liu, Qiang Guo, Lei Hou, Can Cheng and Jian-Guo Liu

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 436, issue C, 629-636

Abstract: How to design an accurate algorithm for ranking the object quality and user reputation is of importance for online rating systems. In this paper we present an improved iterative algorithm for online ranking object quality and user reputation in terms of the user degree (IRUA), where the user’s reputation is measured by his/her rating vector, the corresponding objects’ quality vector and the user degree. The experimental results for the empirical networks show that the AUC values of the IRUA algorithm can reach 0.9065 and 0.8705 in Movielens and Netflix data sets, respectively, which is better than the results generated by the traditional iterative ranking methods. Meanwhile, the results for the synthetic networks indicate that user degree should be considered in real rating systems due to users’ rating behaviors. Moreover, we find that enhancing or reducing the influences of the large-degree users could produce more accurate reputation ranking lists.

Keywords: Online rating system; User reputation; Object quality; Iterative algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.05.043

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