Web search engines apply a variety of ranking signals to achieve user satisfaction, i.e., results pages that provide the best-possible results to the user. While these ranking signals implicitly consider credibility (e.g., by measuring popularity), explicit measures of credibility are not applied. In this chapter, credibility in Web search engines is discussed in a broad context: credibility as...

Fuzzy clustering is a widely used approach for data classification by using the fuzzy set theory. The probability measure and the possibility measure are two popular measures which have been used in the fuzzy c-means algorithm (FCM) and the possibilistic clustering algorithms (PCAs), respectively. However, the numerical experiments revealed that FCM and its derivatives lack the intuitive concep...

Grounded in Media System Dependency theory, this article investigates the impact of new media on political efficacy. It suggests that dependence on online resources affects people's perceptions about the democratic potential of the Internet. Using structural equation modeling, the study tests the relationship between political attitudes and the perceived utility of the Web. The analysis employs...

This research investigates the Story Model, Pennington and Hastie's (1986, 1988) explanationbased theory of decision making for juror decisions. In Experiment 1, varying the ease with which stories could be constructed affected verdict judgments and the impact of credibility evidence. Memory for evidence in all conditions was equivalent, implying that the story structure was a mediator of decis...

Introduction. We apply the theoretical framework and formal model of the observation tuple with the credibility weight for forensic analysis of the IDS data and the corresponding event reconstruction. Forensic Lucid – a forensic case modeling and specification language is used for the task. In the ongoing theoretical and practical work, Forensic Lucid is augmented with the Dempster-Shafer theor...

several studies and researches have been conducted in the world since 1950 to assess and evaluate the media news credibility, and in this regard the researches tried to investigate the media news from different angles. the finding of any such researches and studies quite indicate that the credibility is a multidimensional construct and thus, a reliable and successful survey in this connection i...

NURSING MANAGEMENT June 2016 | Volume 23 | Number 3 31 and potential conflicts of interest between meeting independent practice areas and HEIs’ expectations (Bower 2002), as well as the challenges of working across organisations with different structures and role priorities (Redwood et al 2002). There is a lack of research into the effectiveness of these roles in bridging the theory-practice ga...

The IS help desk function plays a central role in boundary spanning knowledge exchanges within organizations. Help desk employees provide technical support to users in an effort to transfer knowledge and enable users to autonomously apply this knowledge in the future. However, despite their importance, little is known about the factors that affect knowledge application within this context. Adop...

Traditionally considered a deficiency in will power and rationality, suggestibility has proven a troublesome concept for psychology. It was forgotten, rediscovered, denounced, undermined experimentation and recently became the ambiguous issue at the centre of concern about child witness’ credibility in sexual abuse cases. This paper traces the history of suggestibility to show how it raises the...