Peer-to-peer networks have become increasingly popular in the recent years. In an open peer-to-peer network peers often have to interact with unknown peers and need to manage the risk in their communications. It is very important for peers to select a trustworthy peer to accomplish a task. Peers must be able to determine the trustworthiness of other peers to increasing uncertainty and risk. Thu...

Studies on the large scale peer-to-peer (P2P) network like Gnutella have shown the presence of large number of free riders. Moreover, the open and decentralized nature of P2P network is exploited by malicious users who distribute unauthentic or harmful contents. Despite the existence of a number of trust management schemes in the literature for combating against free riding and distribution of ...

Online market exchanges are usually characterized by uncertainty and risks. Establishing trust and providing trust-building mechanisms are thus crucial for marketplace providers to reduce uncertainty and risks of online transactions. Business models that focus on consumer-to-consumer (C2C) transactions are growing and prospering. For these business models, establishing trust between consumers i...

This paper presents a generic Trust Negotiation framework for Web services, based on the WS-Trust standard. It allows users to create trust incrementally, by disclosing credentials step by step. This way, services and resources can be shared in an open environment, and access can be realized on the basis of peer-to-peer trust relationships. The paper also describes a practical implementation of...

the main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. the method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in meybod and ardakan (yazd). data collected by moorman's (1999) organizational justice qu...

recent growth and developments in internet and electronic services play a significant role in banking industry all over the world especially in iran. it caused an intensive competition between governmental and non- governmental banks in the field of using e-banking services in a way that each bank attempts to attract more customers using high-quality e-services. ways of delivering services, qua...