With the increasing number of services, the need to locate relevant services remains essential. To satisfy the query of a service requester, available service providers has first to be discovered. This task has been heavily investigated from both industrial and academic perspectives based essentially on registers. However, they completely ignore the contribution of the social dimension. When in...

After arguing about the crucial importance of trust for Agents and MAS, we provide a definition of trust both as a mental state and as a social attitude and relation. We present the mental ingredients of trust: its specific beliefs and goals, with special attention to evaluations and expectations. We show the relation between trust and the mental background of delegation. We explain why trust i...

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 ...

This article examines institutional encounters in the light of trust contemporary welfare state context Finland from perspectives young forced migrants. Young persons with a migration background constitute growing group Nordic societies, and are an essential part their everyday life. Still, little is known about how shaped experienced this context. Drawing on 12 interviews migrants, I examine d...

What is the impact of process documentation on the relationship between operational alignment and IT provider flexibility in IT outsourcing relationships? Drawing on a sample of application management outsourcing relationships from the German banking industry, we analyze the connections between interorganizational alignment of IT and business domains and IT provider flexibility. Results show th...

Creation of smart spaces and scaling of devices to achieve miniaturization in pervasive computing environments has put forth a question on the degree of security of such devices. Security being a unique challenge in such environments, solution demands scalability, access control, heterogeneity, trust. Most of the existing cryptographic solutions widely in use rely on the hardness of factorizati...