The article has a theoretical purpose. It develops a framework about the role of trust in e-government services. It focuses in particular on the initial stage of the relationship between a user and a public administration engaged in the provision of e-government services. In this context the authors aim to develop a theoretical framework showing the role played by different categories of “trust...

We highlight the focuses of attention within the trust management literature, and reviewed various accounts of situationaware trust judgment in [7]. In [4] we propose a hierarchical Bayesian reputation algorithm for trust management and a method based on maximum likelihood estimation to bootstrap trust with unfamiliar agents based on stereotypes and context information. We give a more comprehen...

Cloud storage is getting increasing attention in the last few years. By moving data to locationtransparent centralized facilities or providers, cloud storage services offer significant economic advantages to consumers and enterprises. However, concerns have been raised regarding the duplication, dissemination, and deletion of data stored on the cloud. In addition, data leakage would be another ...

A trust has received much attention in many streams of information systems research, there has been little theorizing to explain how trust evokes sentiments and affects task performance in IT-enabled relationships. Many studies unquestionably assume that trust is intrinsically beneficial, and dismiss the possibility that the effects of trust may be dependent on the situation (or conditions) at ...

review. However, peer review has limitations in evaluating research papers. In this paper, Scienstein and the new idea of " collaborative document evaluation " are presented. Scienstein is a project to evaluate scientific papers collaboratively based on ratings, links, annotations and classifications by the scientific community using the internet. In this paper, critical success factors of coll...

We present two related tasks of the BioNLP Shared Tasks 2011: Bacteria Gene Renaming (Rename) and Bacteria Gene Interactions (GI). We detail the objectives, the corpus specification, the evaluation metrics, and we summarize the participants’ results. Both issued from PubMed scientific literature abstracts, the Rename task aims at extracting gene name synonyms, and the GI task aims at extracting...