The subjective trust relationship is uncertain in the open network; it has fuzziness and uncertainty of dual characteristics. Therefore, both features should be considered when setting up trust model. Cloud model was introduced to, a qualitative and quantitative transformation model; the investigation of subjective trust management, a brand new representation method of subjective trust was prop...

Sharing structured data today requires agreeing on a standard schema, then mapping and cleaning all of the data to achieve a single queriable mediated instance. However, for settings in which structured data is collaboratively authored by a large community, such as in the sciences, there is seldom consensus about how the data should be represented, what is correct, and which sources are authori...

Background: Patients’ trust in their physicians can affect therapeutic outcomes. Measurement of patient’s trust levels is a helpful approach for policymakers in healthcare systems. Aim: The present study was targeted toward the translation and psychometric assessment of patients’ trust in midwifery care questionnaire. Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 female patients refer...

Trust is a key enabler of cooperative human actions. Three main deficiencies about our current knowledge of trust are addressed by this paper. First, due to widely divergent conceptual definitions of trust, the literature on trust is in a state of construct confusion. Second, too little is understood about how trust forms and on what trust is based. Third, little has been discussed about the ro...

Grid computing is a dynamic system and trust changes over time. A kind of flexible trust management is urgently required that could obtain new, not foreseen trust value by computing or reasoning. Semantic grid makes it easier for resources to be discovered and joined up automatically. But there are not explicit semantic content for trust management. By taking full advantage of the content of se...

Trust models are widely used in various computer science disciplines. The primary purpose of a trust model is to continuously measure the trustworthiness of a set of entities based on their behaviors. In this article, the novel notion of rational trust modeling is introduced by bridging trust management and game theory. Note that trust models/reputation systems have been used in game theory (e....