SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The
International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2) announced
today that the 2019 Seoul Test of Time Award will be presented to
the authors of the paper "The EigenTrust Algorithm for Reputation
Management in P2P Networks"; Sepandar D. Kamvar (Founder, Mosaic
Building Group Inc and Celo), Mario
Schlosser (CEO and co-founder, OSCAR) and Héctor
Garcia-Molina (Professor, Stanford
University). The award will be presented during the opening
ceremony of the 28th International conference in The Web Conference
series on May 15, in San Francisco.
The paper was first presented at the 12th International World
Wide Web Conference in Budapest,
Hungary in May 2003. It has
gone on to have more than 4,685 citations to date and has become
foundational research on a wide range of issues that are defining
the evolution of the Web – from trust in social networks, to crypto
networks.
This paper introduces a reputation system called EigenTrust to
determine how trustworthy a peer is in a distributed system. It was
originally proposed as an algorithm to decrease the number of
downloads of inauthentic files in a peer-to-peer file-sharing
network by assigning each peer a unique global trust value. The
relevance of the EigenTrust algorithm, however, extends to many
other types of distributed systems as well, such as today's social
media networks, where peers contribute content that may be
malicious or "fake" in nature. The algorithm computes global trust
values for each peer that reflect the experiences of all peers in
the network with the given peer. All peers in the network
participate in computing these values in a distributed and
node-symmetric manner. Through EigenTrust, the network effectively
identifies malicious peers and isolates them from other peers.
Dame Wendy Hall, Chair of the
International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2), said:
"Since 2003 when this paper was first published, the growth of
social media usage worldwide, together with the 'Fake News'
phenomenon, has reinforced the importance of this paper in today's
society, and will no doubt continue to exert its influence in years
to come."
The EigenTrust Algorithm is the perfect example of the
overarching theme of this year's Web Conference: a Web for Good.
The conference, which takes place May
13-17 will provide a forum for more than 1,500 industry
professionals, researchers, policy makers, developers, and other
practitioners to reflect on, discuss and debate the evolution of
the Web, and its impact on society and culture while identifying
future opportunities and research directions that can help us
create a Web that is open, safe, inclusive, and balanced.
About the Seoul Test of Time Award
Inaugurated in 2014, the Seoul Test of Time Award is made possible
by the generous contribution of the organisers of WWW2014 held in
Seoul, South Korea, in
May 2014. It is awarded annually to
the author or authors of a paper presented at a previous World Wide
Web conference that has, as the name suggests, stood the test of
time. The first Award, presented at WWW2015 in Florence, was made to Google founders
Sergey Brin and Larry Page, for their world-changing paper 'The
Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine', presented
at the World Wide Web Conference in Brisbane in 1998.
About the IW3C2
The International World-Wide Web Conference Committee is the
Association that organises global academic conferences on Web
technology: http://www.iw3c2.org/conferences. For
further information contact: contact@iw3c2.org
About The Web Conference
Since its first event, in 1994 at CERN, the Web Conference
(formerly the WWW Conference) has provided scientists, researchers,
policy makers, activists and technology industry leaders with the
forum to discuss the evolution of Web and its impact on business,
culture and society. The conference is organized each year by a
local team of volunteers in different parts of the world in
collaboration with the International World Wide Web Conference
Committee (IW3C2). This year's conference is organized by Web4Good,
a non-profit organization with 501(c)(3) status and sponsored by
Microsoft (Diamond); Amazon, Bloomberg and Google (Gold); Criteo AI
Lab, Cisco, NTENT, Spotify, Yahoo Research and Wikimedia Foundation
(Silver); and Baidu, DiDi, eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn, Megagon Labs,
Mix, Mozilla, Netflix Research, Northeastern University, Pinterest,
Quora, Visa Research and Walmart Labs (Bronze). For more
information on The Web Conference 2019,
visit https://www2019.thewebconf.org/. For
updates on future events,
visit: https://www.iw3c2.org/
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