This paper outlines the findings of a survey on trust, captured through attitude, experience, behaviour and expectation, of members in a Government run online support network. Overall, the results show that participants have high expectations for the behaviour of others in the community, expecting them to be trustworthy, helpful and supportive. There is a gap, however, between the respondents‟ ...

This study finds that subjective norm plays a critical role in online trust formation. It is the covariate of all cultural variables. For a person of any cultural orientation, others' opinions matter. Uncertainty avoidance and power distance, but not collectivism, most strongly influence subjective norm and trust constructs. Introduction While e-commerce is a global phenomenon, and understandin...

To smooth the cooperation within a VBE, and to facilitate the partner selection for VOs configured in VBEs, the VBE member organizations need to trust each other. Among others, lack of trust relationships among organizations, negatively affects their information exchange and resources sharing. In small-size VBEs, organizations have the chance to get to know each, and thus can individually make ...

In multi-agent systems, agents must typically interact with others to achieve their goals. Since agents are assumed to be self-interested, it is important to choose reliable interaction partners to maximise the likelihood of success. Sub-standard and failed interactions can result from a poor selection. Effective partner selection requires information about how agents behave in varying situatio...

The concept of trust in multi-agent systems (MASs) has received significant attention in recent years, and a number of approaches have been proposed to enable agents to form, maintain and use trust relationships in their dealings with others. However, current approaches do not adequately address highly dynamic multi-agent systems, where the population and structure changes frequently. For examp...

We propose a new concept called trust* as a way of avoiding the necessity to transitively trust others in a range of distributed environments. The trust* approach uses guarantees based upon already established trust relationships. These localised guarantees are then used to extend trust to a new relationship (which we call trust*) which can hold between principals which are unknown to and do no...

This paper is concerned with a fuzzy trust model which takes into account both evaluations from multiple criteria and the recommendations from others in order to set the trust degrees on entities. In the proposed trust model, the entity’s preference degrees on the outcomes of the interactions are expressed in fuzzy sets and the trust degrees are determined by aggregating the satisfaction degree...