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Current Status

For background, the dissertation contains 10 chapters:

1. Introduction
2. Social networks
3. Trust
4. Inferring trust in networks: background and related work
5. Calculating trust in binary networks
6. Calculating trust in continuous networks
7. Trust Networks in application: Film Trust
8. Trust Mail (may become "additional applications")
9. Conclusions
10. Future Work

Current status on the chapters:

1. nothing
   
2. basically done - needs edit cycle with advisor
   
3. 4 pages written with material in 2 of the 3 main sections. needs references
   
4. finished. needs only surface proof from advisor. sent to him today.
   
5. nothing. this will largely depend on results i get from analyzing the social networks. code for that is written on a surface level. this is arguably the most important chapter and does not have much finished yet.
   
6. 5 pages finished, 1 section completely done. related work needs to be done. experiments for 3rd section need to be laid out including questionnaires for users.
   
7. nothing formally composed, though much is written up in previous publications.
   
8. nothing
   
9. nothing
   

Today's work

~1000 words in Chapter 4.