The problem of managing for sustainability is marked by the need to make decisions on behalf of others and by the uncertainties that attend such decisions. However, the economic literature on sustainability has paid scant attention to how decisions on behalf of others might differ from decisions on behalf of oneself. And, when risk has been modeled explicitly, the expected utility hypothesis ha...

The vision of the ambient society relies on the constant exchange of personal information among multiple devices, individuals and organisations. The high number of microtrust decisions required in such a scenario calls for automated trust management. In this paper we discuss a set of contextual properties of transactions that ensure trust and trustworthy action in everyday situation and suggest...

The aim of this exploratory study was to explore the relationship between self-compassion, other-compassion, closeness, trust, and social support, and to determine whether there were gender differences between variables. First, it discusses the new construct of compassion for self and others. Second, it examines the potential relationship between compassion and interpersonal communication varia...

This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of scientific collaborations. Multiple researchers share individually collected data, who in turn create new data sets by performing transformations on existing shared data sets. In data sharing communities building tru...

Incentive Design and Trust: Comparing the Effects of Tournament and Team-Based Incentives on Trust We explore the extent to which the structure of incentives affects trust. We hypothesize that the degree to which different incentive mechanisms emphasize competition (via the perceived intentions of others) and entitlements (via the perceived property rights) will affect individuals’ subsequent b...

A b s t r a c t Finding reliable partners for interactions is one of the challenges in ubiquitous computing and P2P systems. We believe, that this problem can be solved by assigning trust values to entities and allowing them to state opinions about the trustworthiness of others. In this paper, we introduce our vision of trust-aided computing, and we present a trust model, called CertainTrust, w...

Social networks provide rich opportunities to interact with friends and other members. While research on motivations and interaction design help explain what makes online communities successful, the influence of trust on social location technologies and interactions that integrate online and off-line activities remains unclear. Drawing from research on information systems, social psychology, an...

People are increasingly using the Internet as a major source of health-related information. Online health communities are interesting in this regard, because they are an important source of information, but also appear to serve an emotional support role in connecting people who have similar conditions or can otherwise empathize with each others’ experiences. Trust is critical to the continued o...

Grid computing is a paradigm for distributed computation on shared resources. It uses a large-scale, highly decentralized infrastructure, in which a huge number of participants share heterogeneous resources for a given purpose. Each participant both provides their own resources and exploits others’ resources, combining them to solve their own problems. Trust management is a major issue in the s...