Peer-to-peer applications (P2P) are no longer limited to home users, and start being accepted in academic and corporate environments. While file sharing and instant messaging applications are the most traditional examples, they are no longer the only ones benefiting from the potential advantages of P2P networks. For example, network file storage, data transmission, distributed computing, and co...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...

The interactions among peers in Peer-to-Peer systems as a distributed collaborative system are based on asynchronous and unreliable communications. Trust is an essential and facilitating component in these interactions specially in such uncertain environments. Various attacks are possible due to large-scale nature and openness of these systems that affects the trust. Peers has not enough inform...

These day, supply chains (SCs) have become more and more complicated and have extensively expanded and due to these complexities, the supply chain management (SCM) has encountered several uncertainties, and, as a result, trust and assurance between members in SCs has become essential for a successful SCM. Although trust is an inevitable component in nearly all fields in SCs, like cooperation, c...

since last decades, there has been a growing interest in the human/social dimensions of natural resources governance especially the structure of social networks in achieving to successful co-management of natural resources. network analysis as a suitable tool in optimum planning of the “network management” of rangeland in regional scale, can improve inter-organizational decision-making and coor...

in this study, the relationship between components of knowledge management on the basis of m. mc olrvy model and social capital has been studied, statistical population consisted of employees of ministry of energy, who were selected among employees of hamedan regional power and were 420 subjects. research tool is a questionnaire and spss statistical software is used for data analysis and struct...

trust is an important element in human relations and cooperation between members of the organization. trust can be the interpersonal or inter-group, in special mode; or be generalized and related to the whole organization in general mode. special-generalized trust as a complex interactive process is influenced by various personal and social factors and variables. some of the most important fact...

the importance of zagros forests and interdependence of local communities to forest resources have led to complexity of its management. the role of local communities and investigating their relations toward implementation of natural resources co-management are undeniable. social network analysis (sna) approach is a new method which illustrates relations among local beneficiaries and has importa...

Reputation is an important means to establish trust in decentralized environments such as the Semantic Web. In reputation-based trust management, an entity’s reputation is usually built on feedback from those who have direct interactions with the entity. A trust function is used to infer one’s trustworthiness based on such feedback. Many trust functions have been proposed in the literature. The...