Web Service is a reusable component which has set of related functionalities that service requesters can programmatically access from the service provider and manipulate through the Web. One of the main security issue is to secure web services from the malicious requesters. Since trust plays an important role in many kinds of human communication, it allows people to work under insecurity and wi...

Virtual enterprises mostly renounce formal contractual guarantees as coordination mechanism in order to ensure overall flexibility. However, when formal coordination mechanisms vanish, informal coordination immediately gains increasing importance. As a consequence, trust becomes a decisive issue for all kinds of loosely coupled organizations and virtual enterprises in special. This paper presen...

The relationship between trust and control is quite relevant both for the very notion of trust and for modelling and implementing trust-control relations with autonomous systems; but it is not trivial at all. On the one side, it is true that where/when there is control there is no trust, and vice versa. However, this refers to a restricted notion of trust: i.e., "trust in y", which is just a pa...

Despite the perceived importance of media in the spread of and resistance against Islamist extremism, little is known about how Muslims use different kinds of media to get information about religious issues, and what sources they trust when doing so. This paper reports the results of a large, random sample survey among Muslims in seven countries Southeast Asia, West Africa and Western Europe, w...

Mobile P2P environments are emerging as a result of rapid expansion of portable terminals that are able to establish direct wireless communication links among themselves. These kinds of terminals are under the control of persons and allowing interactions between their terminals is subject to trust between the individuals and their desire to preserve and exhibit various aspects of autonomy again...

Internet-based virtual computing environments (iVCE) are open, anonymous and dynamic in nature. Such characteristics bring about threats and vulnerabilities in providing trusted services and improving resource utilization. Therefore, a dynamic trust model for distinguishing service and recommendation is proposed. In this paper, we analyze multidimensional decision factors related to the evaluat...

One can distinguish between two kinds of trust that may be placed in a given entity e (a person or a thing), which we call: familiarity-based trust and regularity-based trust. A familiarity-based trust in e is a trust based on personal familiarity with e, or on testimonial by somebody who is familiar with e, directly or indirectly, or even on some measure of the general reputation of e. A regul...

trust is one of the most important factors for the development of electronic banking. the purpose of this study is to determine effective factors on trust in e-banking in the form of a conceptual model. due to the rapid growth of electronic banking in the country, identify factors affecting trust in e-banking is very important. population of this study is customers of bank melli in urmia. we us...

Traditionally, to handle security for stand-alone computers and small networks, user authentication and access control mechanisms would be almost enough. However, considering distributed networks such as the Internet and pervasive environments, these kinds of approaches are confronted with flexibility challenges and scalability problems. This is mainly because open environments lack a central c...