In recent years, we have witnessed an increasing use of trust and reputation systems in different areas of ICT. The idea at the base of trust and reputation systems is of letting users to rate the provided services after each interaction. Other users may use aggregate ratings to compute reputation scores for a given party. The computed reputation scores are a collective measure of parties trust...

in this study, we addressed the relationship between corporate reputation and customer behavioral intentions in the eghtesad novin bank. for this purpose, we considered the components: trust, identification and commitment as mediator variables that led to formulating 8 hypothesis .the research population was the customers of eghtesad novin bank in tehran branches who had at least one active acc...

Background. Attention to the loyalty of fans to the long-term success of sports organizations has become increasingly important. On this note, it seems necessary to pay attention to the variables that predict and influence the loyalty of spectators. Objectives. The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of satisfaction in the effect of team reputation and team quality on the loy...

Today’s violin makers try to replicate the characteristics of the best ancient instruments, such as Stradivari’s. To this aim, they need templates to replicate the soundboard with as much accuracy as possible. Despite several attempts, surveys with laser scanning did not produce usable results, because the instrument’s varnish coating gives rise to multi-path and reflections. Controlling illumi...

Seven new appointments and six returns from leaves of absence were included in the announcement of faculty changes released yesterday by Dr. John M. Sayles, acting president of the college. Heading this listing of changes was the appointment of Dr. Sayles as successor to the late Dr. A. R. Brubacher as president of the college. Formerly director of training and principal of Milne, Dr. Sayles wi...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are new paradigm of networks oering unrestricted mobility without any underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, MANETs are becoming a promising platform for pervasive social networking and content services. In such services, various information ows over the network. In order to evaluate information trustworthiness, this thesis presents a reputation system to evaluate ...

Much of the debate surrounding the use of lecture-based classes as a method for teaching science has focused on the passive role assumed by students in lecture (1, 2, 3). The communication channel is primarily instructor-to-student. Numerous studies have shown that student performance in science classes improves with increasing levels of active participation by students in classroom discussions...

This study sought to examine instructor immediacy and presence in an online learning environment in relation to student affective learning, cognition, and motivation. It found a statistically significant positive relationship between instructor immediacy and presence. It also found that the linear combination of instructor immediacy and presence is a statistically significant predictor of stude...

Automated Collaborative Filtering (CF) techniques have been successfully applied on Recommendation domains. Dellarocas [1] proposes their use on reputation domains to provide more reliable and personalized reputation estimates. Despite being solved by recommendation field researches (e.g. significance weighting [2]), the problem of selecting low-trusted neighborhoods finds new roots in the repu...