This article presents a unifying framework of credibility assessment in which credibility is characterized across a variety of media and resources with respect to diverse information seeking goals and tasks. The initial data were collected through information-activity diaries over a 10-day period from 24 undergraduate students at three different colleges. Based on 245 information seeking activi...

Nonparametric control charts are presented in order to figure out the problem of detecting changes in the process median (or mean)‎, ‎or changes in the variability process where there is limited knowledge regarding the underlying process‎. ‎When observations are reported imprecise‎, ‎then it is impossible to use classical nonparametric control charts‎. ‎This paper is devoted to the problem of c...

The quality of volunteered geographic information (VGI) is questionable as it emerges through a diversity contributors. reputation contributor increasingly applied to VGI assessment and its assurance. Research on how measure validate reputation, however, still required. This study proposes an evaluation-based weighted PageRank (EWPR) algorithm provide ranking metric reputation. Ranking establis...

The goal of this academic research was to examine what extent sustainable advertising messages are perceived as credible by the Belgian consumer. We wanted investigate how credibility arises in commercials and impact green can be. started with a literature study uncover possible determinants were able distinguish six elements that drive advertising. These honesty, clearness, details, commitment...

BACKGROUND Internet sources are becoming increasingly important in seeking health information, such that they may have a significant effect on health care decisions and outcomes. Hence, given the wide range of different sources of Web-based health information (WHI) from different organizations and individuals, it is important to understand how information seekers evaluate and select the sources...

Most estimators/filters provide assessments of their own estimation errors. Are these self-assessments trustable? To what degree are they trustable? This paper provides practical answers to such questions, referred to as the credibility of the estimators/filters. It formulates the concept of credibility and proposes practical measures of credibility with justifications. Numerical examples are p...

We demonstrate an information credibility analysis system called WISDOM. The purpose of WISDOM is to evaluate the credibility of information available on the Web from multiple viewpoints. WISDOM considers the following to be the source of information credibility: information contents, information senders, and information appearances. We aim at analyzing and organizing these measures on the basi...