One of the critical factors for a successful cooperative relationship in a supply chain partnership is trust. Many real-world applications, such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), can be modeled using multi-agent systems. One shortcoming of current SCM models is that their trust models are ad hoc and do not have a strong theoretical basis. As a result, they are unable to model subtleties in agen...

An evaluating mechanism-based cloud computing trust model is raised to aim at the issue of how the cloud service user selects credible cloud service supplier. The trust model constitutes an evaluating system about service behavior between cloud service supplier and cloud service user. After formalized evaluation about entity achieved, certain algorithm would be used to get the trust and trust v...

Ant colony algorithms have become recently popular in solving many optimization problems because of their collaborative decentralized behavior that mimics the behavior of real ants when foraging for food. Recommender systems present an optimization problem in which they aim to accurately predict a user’s rating for an unseen item by trying to find similar users in the network. Trust-based recom...

In this paper, we present a reputation assisted trust management mechanism for vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) using privacy preserving trusted group formation. In a VANET, vehicles or road side units can be malicious or malfunction making security essential. A distributed trust management provides a lightweight security alternative to existing security techniques especially in VANET. The trus...

Studies on the adoption of business-to-consumer e-commerce have not simultaneously considered trust and risk as important determinants of adoption behavior. Further, trust in information technology has not been addressed to a great extent in the context of e-commerce. This research explicitly encompasses the electronic channel and the firm as objects to be trusted in e-commerce. Our conceptual ...

We establish the consistency, asymptotic normality, and efficiency for estimators derived by minimizing the median of a loss function in a Bayesian context. We contrast this procedure with the behavior of two Frequentist procedures, the least median of squares (LMS) and the least trimmed squares (LTS) estimators, in regression problems. The LMS estimator is the Frequentist version of our estima...

A large experimental literature has investigated the determinants of trust using variants of the so called trust game. However, a lot of ambiguity remains regarding the definition of what one is trusting: one extreme view is that since there are no explicit promises or guarantees made in the trust game, cheating is not defined and therefore trust is not implied. We address this concern by askin...

of the Dissertation Motivation, Trust, Leadership, and Technology: Predictors of Knowledge Sharing Behavior in the Workplace By Shabnam Ozlati Claremont Graduate University: 2012 Employees’ knowledge is a critical resource for the organization, and if it is not shared, it is lost to other employees and the organization. However, knowledge sharing does not happen easily; knowledge sharing is a p...