The lack of any centralized infrastructure in mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is one of the greatest security concerns in the deployment of wireless networks. Thus communication in MANET functions properly only if the participating nodes cooperate in routing without any malicious intention. However, some of the nodes may be malicious in their behavior, by indulging in flooding attacks on their n...

Networked environments which provide platforms for business organizations are configured in different forms depending on many factors including life time, member characteristics, communication structure, and business objectives, among others. With continuing advances in digital technologies the distance has become a less barrier for business minded collaboration among organizations. With the ne...

An increased exchange of (scientific) information across organizations and disciplines is one of the long-term goals of the semantic web. In any such exchange of information, it is not difficult to identify one or more (scientific) communities responsible for the measurement, gathering and processing of scientific information. More challenging, however, is to understand the trust relations betw...

Trust and Energy consumption is the most challenging issue in routing protocol design for Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), since mobile nodes are battery powered and nodes behaviour are unpredictable. Furthermore replacing and recharging batteries and making nodes co-operative is often impossible in critical environments like military applications. In this paper, we propose a trust based energy...

Collaboration and co-production with service users and providers in three National Health Service (NHS) mental health foundation trusts, was at the heart of our recent study. The aim was to co-devise a preparation programme to improve experience and outcomes for young people leaving Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Research tells us that transitions from CAMHS are often poor...

Owing to advances in digital technology, emerging breakthrough solutions responding to market needs are becoming increasingly innovative and complex. Large amount of resources, competencies, skills, etc. are required to accomplish such solutions, usually beyond the capabilities and capacities of a single organization. The emergence of co-innovation networks as breeding environments for creation...

the goal of the present paper has been investigating social trust and the factors affecting it among women in three villages of three different iranian provinces. the two research questions of the study are: 1. how is social trust perceived by rural women? 2. what factors affect rural women’s social trust? the data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among a sample of 300 women comin...

the purpose of performing this research was studying relationship of religious orientation and interpersonal trust with educational progress of students. the research was descriptive correlation one.statistical population included all highschool students of birjand city in educational year 93-94 ,which was based on morgan table and random cluster method ,355 samples was chosen and studied. to g...