-The trustworthiness of safety critical system (SCS) is very important. To assess their trustworthiness depends on data from test. In order to ensure the reliability and validity of test data, especially for such complex SCS, development of test languages is inevitable trend for automatic test of SCS. As general test language for SCS should be independent of specific equipment, in the paper typ...

A research model and hypotheses explore software user perceptions of privacy, trust, and legal protection in using application software with embedded spyware. Empirical results reveal actual users of software with spyware, versus users of software without spyware, have lower trust perceptions of a software vendor. Further examination of trustworthiness as a multi-dimensional construct, reveals ...

In this paper, we present a model for evaluating the trustworthiness of advice about seller agents in electronic marketplaces. In particular, we propose a novel personalized approach for effectively handling unfair ratings of sellers provided to buyer agents from other buyers (called advisors). Our approach offers flexibility for buyers to weight their value for private and public knowledge abo...

We present a framework for reasoning about trustworthiness, with application to conflict resolution and belief formation at various degrees of reliability. On the basis of an assignment of relative trustworthiness to sets of information sources, a lattice of degrees of trustworthiness is constructed; from this, a priority structure is derived and applied to the problem of forming the right opin...

BACKGROUND Blunted facial affect is a common negative symptom of schizophrenia. Additionally, assessing the trustworthiness of faces is a social cognitive ability that is impaired in schizophrenia. Currently available pharmacological agents are ineffective at improving either of these symptoms, despite their clinical significance. The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin has multiple prosocial ef...

People posses an innate capability to instinctively evaluate the trustworthiness of other people in their daily lives, and a hardwired tendency to react strongly if they feel betrayed. However, these capabilities do not work in the digital domain, for both obvious and notso-obvious reasons. Therefore, something else is needed. In this paper we explore the prequisites and difficulties that are e...

Abstract Due to the extensive progress of research in artificial intelligence (AI) as well its deployment and application, public debate on AI systems has also gained momentum recent years. With publication Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy (2019), notions trust trustworthiness particular attention within ethics-debates; despite an apparent consensus that should be trustworthy, it is less clear...