In the context of electronic commerce, when modeling the trustworthiness of selling agent relies (in part) on propagating ratings provided by buying agents that have personal experience with the seller, the problem of unfair ratings arises. Extreme diversity of open and dynamic electronic marketplaces causes difficulties in handling unfair ratings in trust management systems. To ease this probl...

Many reputation management schemes have been introduced to assist peers in choosing trustworthy collaborators in P2P environments where honest peers coexist with malicious ones. These schemes indeed provide some useful information about the reliability of peers, but they still suffer from various attacks including slandering, collusion, etc. Consequently, it is crucial to be able to detect mali...

Most of today’s enterprises are open in a competitive market worldwide and dependent on distributed information infrastructure across various geospatial location and various cyber spatial location as well with a purpose of offering ready and effective services to customers. But this decentralization comes at the cost of security. The distributed computing framework is vulnerable to attacks from...

Digital preservation is increasingly recognized as a need by organizations from diverse areas that have to manage information over time and make use of information systems for supporting the business. Methods for assessment of digital preservation compliance inside an organization have been introduced, such as the Trustworthy Repositories Audit & Certification: Criteria and Checklist. However, ...

BACKGROUND persistent pain is a major problem in older people, but little is known about older persons' opinion about the treatment of persistent pain. OBJECTIVE the objective of this study was to investigate the factors associated with older participants having chronic musculoskeletal pain and hoping persistently that physician would pay more attention to the pain management. METHODS this ...

This paper assesses the performance of measures of facial expression dynamics derived from the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT) for classifying emotions in the Facial Expression Recognition and Analysis (FERA) Challenge. The CERT system automatically estimates facial action intensity and head position using learned appearancebased models on single frames of video. CERT outputs wer...

In Howe’ s study (2002), humor originates from perceiving the thoughts of the subject in the humor. We assume that humor and theory of mind (ToM), the ability to infer one’s metal states, could have some relationships. However, the relationships are not clearly known. The present research is aimed to explore the issue by using ToM-jokes, non-ToM jokes, and their unfunny version. The unfunny ver...

objective: depression is a growing public health problem, which needs more consideration in primary care settings. by focusing primarily on developmental psychology, attachment style is one of the most influential variables on the risk of internalized disorders. although attachment styles have strong effects on emotional aspect of human mental life, emotional turbulence and dysfunction are cons...