today, the scientific communications are developed and expanded on the internet and the famous world wide web service, and the popularity of the electronic scientific databases (esds) such as sciencedirect, google scholar, and scopus is an evidence of this claim. in addition to providing scientific contents, the esds offer researchers diverse scientific web services such as scientific communica...

the increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. through the development of semantic web, one major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. this raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. each user knows the trustworthiness of ...