This paper presents an innovative method to evaluate the credibility of network connections based on neural network with back propagation (BP) network model and Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) optimization algorithm. In it, the second-level index values are taken as input and expected evaluation values as output, based on which, L test samples are used to test the trained neural network. At last, a pr...

In this paper we attempt to analyze the independence and credibility of five Belgian regulatory agencies. In the theoretical part we cover the existing literature and find that although independence and credibility are different phenomena independence is usually used as a proxy for credibility. In the empirical part we therefore concentrate on the independence of Belgian regulatory agencies usi...

The paper explores the use of a joint log Gaussian measurement distribution to represent a field of extreme values. A hierarchical Bayes prior distribution with estimated hyperparameters models uncertainty in that distribution’s unknown parameters. The resulting multivariate t distribution is fitted to the random maximum annual rainfall field simulated from a Canadian Climate model with 319 gri...

The size and diversity of today’s online content makes it hard for the users to evaluate its credibility. To address this problem, we aim to build a fully-decentralized and robust recommender system to support web credibility assessment. In this proposal, we highlight three pieces of work that serve as starting points for our research, which we organize in a number of steps: (1) an extensive an...

According to my dictionaries, "credibility" is the property of being credible, with the latter meaning roughly the same as believable. So with this definition, a policy lacks credibility if it is one that could not reasonably be believed. It would appear that William Fellner (1976, 1979), who introduced the idea into the macroeconomic arena, chose this particular word because he believed that t...

Credibility influences a user’s interest in a web site. Once users perceive the credibility of a web site they will be more likely to use it. A combination of factors affects such credibility – such as the provider, content, aesthetics, accessibility and solution of technical problems. The aesthetics of a web site can affect a user’s first impressions of credibility. Experiments have shown that...

With the fast development of Social Networking Services (SNS) such as Twitter, which enable users to exchange short messages online, people can get information not only from the traditional news media but also from the masses of SNS users. However, SNS users sometimes propagate spurious or misleading information, so an effective way to automatically assess the credibility of information is requ...