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Tipo:	Tese
Título:	Random walks on the reputation graph
Autor(es):	Sabir Ribas
Primeiro Orientador:	Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
Primeiro Coorientador:	Nivio Ziviani
Primeiro membro da banca :	Altigran Soares da Silva
Segundo membro da banca:	Edmundo Albuquerque Souza e Silva
Terceiro membro da banca:	Rodrygo Luis Teodoro Santos
Resumo:	The identification of reputable entities is an important task in business, education, and in many other fields. In general, the reputation of an entity reflects its public perception, which touches upon a variety of aspects that may impact the identity of the entity, such as its prowess, integrity, and trustworthiness. Indeed, more reputable entities are presumably a better fit for most purposes. Thus, while reputation is a widespread notion in society, it is albeit an arguably ill-defined one. As a consequence, quantifyingreputationischallenging. Indeed, existingattemptstoquantifyreputation rely on either manual assessments or on a restrictive definition of reputation. Inthisthesis,insteadofrelyingonasingleandprecisedefinitionofreputation,we proposetoexploitthetransference ofreputationamongentitiesinordertoidentifythe most reputable ones. To this end, we introduce a conceptual framework of reputation flowsandproposeametricbasedonit, whichwecallP-score. Thisframeworkconsists of a random walk model that allows inferring the reputation of a target set of entities with respect to suitable sources of reputation. By using it, we can better understand how reputation flows between distinct entities in a reputation graph. Weinstantiateourmodelinanacademicsearchsettingtoaddressthreecommon ranking tasks namely, research group ranking, author ranking, and publication venue ranking. By relying on publishing behavior as a reputation signal, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in contrast to standard citation-based approaches for identifying reputable venues, authors, and research groups in the broad area of Computer Science. In addition, we demonstrate the robustness of our model to perturbations in the selection of reputation sources. Finally, we show that effective reputation sources can be chosen via the proposed model itself in a fully automatic fashion.
Idioma:	por
País:	Brasil
Editor:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Sigla da Instituição:	UFMG
Departamento:	ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO
Curso:	Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência da Computação
Tipo de Acesso:	Acesso Aberto
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1843/31006
Data do documento:	6-Abr-2017
Aparece nas coleções:	Teses de Doutorado

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