Nowadays, the growth of virtual environments such as virtual organizations, social networks, and ubiquitous computing, has led to the adoption of trust concept. One of the methods of making trust in such environments is to use a long-term relationship with a trusted partner. The main problem of this kind of trust, which is based on personal experiences, is its limited domain. Moreover, both par...

In recent years, tendency to renewable energy resources has increased considerably in order obtain cleaner energy. The effect of the decisions taken by artificial intelligence models on efficiency is very important transformation these resources. With eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), various methods have been developed for trust, transparency and decision making models, but more need ...

in the present study, a number of iranian it professionals and electronic commerce managers are surveyed in order to investigate their viewpoints about the level of importance for determinant factors affecting the generation of trust among the internet consumers. to accomplish this, a model, which is adopted from the existing models in the e-trust literature, is offered to represent the crucial...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have attracted significant interest in recent years. In P2P networks, each peer act as both a server or a client. This characteristic makes peers vulnerable to a wide variety of attacks. Having robust trust management is very critical for such open environments to exclude unreliable peers from the system. This paper investigates the use of genetic programming to asses...

This paper focuses mainly on social aspects concerning trust and network, especially in higher education institutions. Trust plays a crucial role as social capital and is an important factor of social order, especially in countries in transition. The hypothesis that low trust is one major problem of entrepreneurship will be examined. In low-trust environments, trust is abused as soon as it is p...

background according to world health organization (who) estimation, more than half of all pharmaceutical products are inappropriately prescribed, distributed, and sold and more than half of all patients use the medicines prescribed for them incorrectly. as more than 40% of therapeutic costs are pharmaceutical costs, this implies a significant waste of health resources in the world. objectives t...

Background and Objectives: Religious behaviors, among which Trust in the Almighty God is a major representation, play a key role in giving meaning to life, generation of hope, and mental relaxation. The present study was conducted aimed at examination of the subject Trust in the Almighty God and analysis of the concept Trust from the perspective of psychology, delineating its relationship with ...

The introduction of technology into voting systems can bring a number of benefits, such as improving accessibility, remote voting and efficient, accurate processing of votes. A voting system which uses electronic technology in any part of processing the votes, from vote capture and transfer through to vote tallying, is known as an ‘e-voting’ system. In addition to the undoubted benefits, the in...

The open and anonymous nature of a P2P network makes it an ideal medium for attackers to spread malicious content. In this paper, we describe a reputationbased trust management protocol for P2P networks where users rate the reliability of parties they deal with, and share this information with their peers. The protocol helps establishing trust among good peers as well as identifying the malicio...