Cloud/Grid systems are composed of nodes that individually manage local resources, and when a client request is submitted to the system, it is necessary to find the most suitable nodes to satisfy that request. In a competitive scenario, each node is in competition with each other to obtain the assignment of available tasks. In such a situation, it is possible that a node, in order to obtain the...

The fundamental purpose of record keeping is to preserve the details associated with certain transactions or events and, furthermore, to preserve irrefutable evidence of the occurrence of such events. Trustworthy record keeping is vital to an organization in the current regulatory and business environment. It enables the smooth operation of the organization, and it helps reduce the exposure of ...

Recent scandals have called our attention to an issue, financial reporting, that we all know, privately at least, is long overdue. The issue goes far beyond fraud, as more and more financial statements require correction. Indeed, many, if not all, financial operations within corporations and government both cost far too much and do not produce the desired result. Reforms led by Congress, Attorn...

Internet-based information technology enables impromptu, virtually anonymous interactions between geographically dispersed, diverse others that is an order of magnitude larger than any preceding information technology. With this increased networking capability comes increased risk and uncertainty. We conducted a content analysis to identify what trustors in peer-to-peer computermediated transac...

Due to numerous public information sources and services, many methods to combine heterogeneous data were proposed recently. However, general end-to-end solutions are still rare, especially systems taking into account different context dimensions. Therefore, the techniques often prove insufficient or are limited to a certain domain. In this paper we briefly review and rigorously evaluate a gener...

Nowadays the effective use of organizational knowledge and sharing it among the staff has become an strategic resource to achieve and maintain competitive advantage. For achieving such Organizations need to have strategies to improve knowledge sharing. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and trust, culture and trust and knowledge sharing ...

in recent years, the effects of organizational citizenship behaviors on the success of organizations have attracted considerable attention. the purpose of this research is to analyze the effect of organizational trust on employees’ organizational citizenship behaviors at the north khorasan gas company. to collect data, an organizational citizenship behavior questionnaire and an organizational t...

The increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. Through the development of semantic Web, One major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. This raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. Each user knows the trustworthiness of ...

Narcissism has been shown to be associated with a lack of trust in others, but little is known about the factors that may play role tendency for narcissistic individuals mistrust others. The present research examined whether associations specific personality features had social were mediated by worldviews. A large study Iranian community members (N = 3,446; mean age 34.28 years) revealed antago...