This paper has reviewed theoretical and empirical studies on information credibility with particular questions of how scholars have conceptualized credibility that is known as a multifaceted concept with underlying dimensions; how credibility has been operationalized and measured in empirical studies, especially in the Web context; what are the important user characteristics that contribute to ...

Introduction Electric power industry provides basic power for human activities and economic growth, and plays an essential role in social development. At the meantime, it is also a major source of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitric oxide (e.g. CO2, SO2, and NOx) emissions. Especially, the environmental pollution caused by traditional fossil generation becomes a serious problem, which ga...

To enhance the credibility level/measure of an intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), this study proposes notion (IFCS) to express hybrid information a pair membership degree and nonmembership degree. Next, we propose generalized distance similarity measures between IFCSs then further generalize weighted measure trigonometric function-based IFCSs, including cosine, sine, tangent, cotangent based on IF...

Reputation systems have become more and more important in facilitating transactions in online systems. However, the accuracy of reputation systems has always been a concern for the users due to the existence of unfair ratings. Though many approaches have been proposed to mitigate the adverse effect of unfair ratings, most of them use the credibility of the rating provider alone to decide whethe...

Risk analysis of gravity dam stability involves complicated uncertainty in many design parameters and measured data. Stability failure risk ratio described jointly by probability and possibility has deficiency in characterization of influence of fuzzy factors and representation of the likelihood of risk occurrence in practical engineering. In this article, credibility theory is applied into sta...

In this study, a mix inexact-quadratic fuzzy water resources management model of floodplain (IQT-WMMF) has developed, through incorporating techniques of credibility-constrained programming (CP), two-stage programming (TP), interval-parameter programming (IPP) and quadratic programming (QP) within a general framework for limited data availability. The IQT-WMMF can provide an effective linkage b...