Deconstructing Trust Management

Between Optimism and Opportunism: Deconstructing ‘African Management’ Discourse in South

De profundis? Deconstructing the concept of strategic alignment

Hugo von Hofmannstahl Letter to Lord Chandos (1902) 1. An introductory chronicle 1991 The results of the MIT research program “Management in the 1990s” are published (Scott Morton 1991). Among them, a rudimentary framework, whereby information technology (IT) is regarded as a variable linked with others such as strategy, organization, culture...The diamond diagram gains widespread following in ...

DisTriB: Distributed Trust Management Model Based on Gossip Learning and Bayesian Networks in Collaborative Computing Systems

The interactions among peers in Peer-to-Peer systems as a distributed collaborative system are based on asynchronous and unreliable communications. Trust is an essential and facilitating component in these interactions specially in such uncertain environments. Various attacks are possible due to large-scale nature and openness of these systems that affects the trust. Peers has not enough inform...

Between Optimism and Opportunism Deconstructing ‘African Management’ Discourse in South Africa

Deconstructing ‘African Management’ Discourse in South Africa This dissertation is about ‘African management’ in South Africa, an Afrocentric perspective on management and organisation that emerged in the early 1990s. The indigenous notion of ubuntu (‘humane-ness’) is a key concept in this regard. This dissertation provides an analysis of the emergence and evolvement of ‘African management’ alo...

A Novel Trust Management Model in the Social Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking integration, create a new concept named Social Internet of Things (SIoT) according to which the things are able to autonomously establish social relationships with regard to the owners. Things in SIoT operate according to a service-oriented architecture. There may be misbehaving owners and consequently misbehaving devices that can perform harmf...