Any future Internet architecture must offer improved protection and resilience over today’s network, which is subject to pervasive and persistent attacks. A recently emerging architecture, Named-Data Network (NDN), treats content as the primitive entity. This leads to decoupling location from identity, security and access, and retrieving content by name. NDN security is based on the establishme...

context: management of health care organizations based on employee's mutual trust will increase the improvement in functions and tasks. aims: the present study was performed to investigate the relationship between organizational trust and the nurse administrators' productivity in educational health centers of in the health-education centers of isfahan university of medical sciences. settings an...

The contents access and sharing in multimedia social networks (MSNs) mainly rely on access control models and mechanisms. Simple adoptions of security policies in the traditional access control model cannot effectively establish a trust relationship among parties. This paper proposed a novel two-party trust architecture (TPTA) to apply in a generic MSN scenario. According to the architecture, s...

We propose a general possibilistic framework to determine the agent’s trust degree in a source, starting from the content of the messages such source provides and based on the beliefs of the agent about the capability of the source to provide “useful information”. The result is a framework with unique characteristics, which combines experience-, reputation-, content-, and category-based models ...

Rummble Ltd (www.rummble.com) is an online mobile local content provider that gives users access to trusted spatially-located content via the web and mobile. Rummble brands itself as a “Personalised travel guide written by your friends”. Users sign up and build a social network. They upload reviews of places they have visited and provide ratings for them. The service carries out a trust network...

The Web is deep into its second decade of life, and since 1991 it has dramatically changed the way the connected world operates. As the Web has shifted to an interactive environment where much content is created by users, the question of whom to trust and what information to trust has become both more important and more difficult to answer. One promising solution is using social trust relations...

The problem of identifying trustworthy information on the World Wide Web is becoming increasingly acute as new tools such as wikis and blogs simplify and democratize publications. Wikipedia is the most extraordinary example of this phenomenon and, although a few mechanisms have been put in place to improve contributions quality, trust in Wikipedia content quality has been seriously questioned. ...

Infomediaries are information intermediaries in the Internet that play an important part in reducing online customers’ search costs for finding the most suitable vendors and products. This research explores the process of Web customers’ trust building using infomediaries. Specifically, we identify four sets of trust-related beliefs that impact web customers’ trust attitude and intended behavior...

Nowadays, peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming systems have become a popular way to deliver multimedia content over the internet due to their low bandwidth requirement, high video streaming quality, and flexibility. However, P2P streaming systems are vulnerable to various attacks, especially pollution attacks, due to their distributed and dynamically changing infrastructure. In this paper, by exploring...