In most of the current trust model, the evaluation of whether an entity is trust is different to different judger. The reason of this phenomenon is that different judger use the different standard in its opinion. So the evaluation lack of convincing, are not well describe the relationship between two parties. In response to these issues, drawing on the trust relationship between human societies...

Using the existing internet protocol suite of HTTP over TCP, the user has little or no control over the progress of a web transfer he requested. We are developing a new protocol |WebTP | that includes the user in the transmission loop for a web transfer. WebTP optimizes the transport of a document from the sender to the receiver by taking into account factors like the contents of the document, ...

In this article, the incremental searcher satisfaction model for Information Retrieval is introduced. In this model, documents are not presented according to decreasing relevancy only, but also on the level of novelty in the context of the documents previously presented. Documents which are judged to be insuuciently surprising (according to a searcher determined threshold) are not presented to ...

INTRODUCTION Measurement errors and questionnaire effects in survey data can have substantial impact on estimates of statistical relationships. Although the customer satisfaction literature contains some discussion of scaling issues (Westbrook and Oliver 1981), statistical models of customer satisfaction have not explicitly recognized measurement issues. This paper enhances the traditional mode...

Knowledge management in health care sector poses a challenge for policy makers and international health organizations. Nowadays, virtual communities of practice (VCoPs) resolve many problems, which arise from geographical distance and expensive learning process in health care sector. It is used by health professionals and researchers, for improving health care services quality, by enhancing the...

This investigation explored the relationship of client engagement variables (client expectations, therapeutic/working alliance, and session attendance) with treatment satisfaction and posttreatment drinking-related outcomes using data from 2 outpatient alcohol treatment studies (N=208). Path analysis was used to test a model in which engagement variables jointly influence client satisfaction wi...

The authors propose and test a mediational model linking the experience of retirement with marital satisfaction. The experience of retirement (financial strain, time structure, a sense of purposefulness, and interpersonal contacts) is held to predict marital satisfaction indirectly through its sequential effects on context-specific well-being (retirement-specific satisfaction with health, activ...