We present a prototype of agent-based intrusion detection system designed for deployment on high-speed backbone networks. The main contribution of the system is the integration of several anomaly detection techniques by means of collective trust modeling within a group of collaborative detection agents, each featuring a specific detection algorithm. The anomalies are used as an input for the tr...

The robustness of distributed systems is usually phrased in terms of the number of failures of certain types that they can withstand. However, these failure models are too crude to describe the different kinds of trust and expectations of participants in the modern world of complex, integrated systems extending across different owners, networks, and administrative domains. Modern systems often ...

Lack of trust is one of the most frequently cited reasons for consumers not purchasing from Internet vendors. During the last four years a number of empirical studies have investigated the role of trust in the specific context of e-commerce, focusing on different aspects of this multi-dimensional construct. However, empirical research in this area is beset by conflicting conceptualizations of t...

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 current research tries to offer a conceptual model in order to create trust among people for choosing virtual universities. to this end, the conceptual model of research has been designed with nine factors. the relationship among factors tested by using statistical methods such as factor analysis and path analysis. in the end, five components were established from among the affecting factor...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate whether generalized trust and/or social participation at an individual level have negative associations with unmet healthcare needs. METHODS Door-to-door interviews were conducted by trained interviewers to collect information. The 8,800 study participants included 220 adults sampled systematically using the resident registration database fr...

the goal of the present paper has been investigating social trust and the factors affecting it among women in three villages of three different iranian provinces. the two research questions of the study are: 1. how is social trust perceived by rural women? 2. what factors affect rural women’s social trust? the data were collected by distributing a questionnaire among a sample of 300 women comin...