Trust is viewed as a computational construct capable of being explicitly studied and modeled. Although articulated as a (functional) property of individual agents, the collective effect of events influencing (and being influenced by) trust judgments can impact organizational behavior. In this paper we summarize our work on agent trust and explore a current study on trust, cooperativity, and ben...

Intelligent assistants promise to simplify our lives and increase our productivity. Yet for this promise to become reality, the Artificial Intelligence community will need to address two important issues. The first is how to determine that the assistants we build will, in fact, behave appropriately and safely. The second issue is how to convince society at large that these assistants are useful...

Nowadays, the growth of virtual environments such as virtual organizations, social networks, and ubiquitous computing, has led to the adoption of trust concept. One of the methods of making trust in such environments is to use a long-term relationship with a trusted partner. The main problem of this kind of trust, which is based on personal experiences, is its limited domain. Moreover, both par...

Many theories of trust emphasize that trust is most relevant to behavior in situations involving a conflict of interests. However, it is not clear how trust relates to behavior across situations that differ in the degree of conflicting interest: Does trust matter more when the conflict of interest is small or large? According to an interdependence perspective, trust becomes an especially import...

The maximum asymptotic bias of an estimator is a global robustness measure of the performance of an estimator. The projection median estimator for multivariate location shows a remarkable behavior regarding asymptotic bias. In this paper we consider a modi cation of the projection median estimator which renders an estimate with better bias performance for point mass contaminations (the worst si...

Trust models have been touted to facilitate cooperation among unknown entities. Existing behavior-based trust models typically include a fixed evaluation scheme to derive the trustworthiness of an entity from knowledge about its behavior in previous interactions. This paper in turn proposes a framework for behavior-based trust models for open environments with the following distinctive characte...

traditionally, trust has been seen as a result of personal knowledge of an individual’s past behavior. In this view, trust develops gradually over time based on an individual’s cognitive assessment of the other person’s behavior. However, high levels 242 RObERt, DENNIS, AND HuNg of trust have been observed among members of virtual teams, who often have little prior history of working together a...

In this paper, the results of a validation experiment for two existing computational trust models describing human trust are reported. One model uses experiences of performance in order to estimate the trust in different trustees. The second model carries the notion of relative trust. The idea of relative trust is that trust in a certain trustee not solely depends on the experiences with that t...

The main purpose of this research project was to investigate the impact of Strategic Human Resource Management practices on knowledge sharing behavior among university faculty members. This research also studied the mediating role of trust and organizational commitment in the relationship between SHRM practices and knowledge sharing behavior. Following the positivist paradigm, this research ado...

BACKGROUND Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor symptoms, but in which behavioral and cognitive disturbances are also common. Trust, due to its pervasiveness in society, has become a major research topic in several scientific disciplines. However, empirical evidence for trust behavior in neurological patients, and specifically for movement disorders suc...