Trust management is an extensively investigated topic. A lot of trust models and systems have been proposed in the literature. However, a universally agreed trust model is rarely seen due to the fact that trust is essentially subjective and different people may have different views on it. We focus on the personalization of trust in order to catch this subjective nature of trust. We propose a mu...

Trustworthy computing has recently attracted significant interest from researchers in several fields including multi-agent systems, social network analysis, and recommender systems. As an additional dimension of information to past rating history, trust has been shown to be helpful for improving the accuracy of recommendations. Studies on the relationship between trust and rating behaviors may ...

This article develops a conceptual framework of the dynamics trust between parents and professionals in early childhood education care. In contemporary Western society, heightened risk awareness with respect to has led an increased focus on collaboration home daycare. Mutual is core aspect this collaboration, resulting imperative. Drawing Knud Eilar Løgstrup, Noomi Matthiesen, Paula Cavada-Hrep...

Trust is an essential component for secure collaboration in uncertain environments. Trust management can be used to reason about future interactions between entities. In reputation-based trust management, an entity’s reputation is usually built on ratings from those who have had direct interactions with the entity. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian network based trust management model. In or...

This paper reports on system trust and interpersonal trust issues revealed in an embedded-case study of two telemedicine services offered by a teaching hospital. Consistent with McKnight (2005) perceived system competence was an important dimension of system trustworthiness. Drawing on representation theory (Wand and Weber, 1995) we observed: 1. Some clinicians feel telemedicine provides a bett...

During the past four decades, public trust in governments has continued to diminish due to various administrative, political, socio-cultural, economic, and mass media causes. Focusing on the administrative dimension, this study explores selected administrative factors to the declining of public trust, including public perception of administrative corruption (lack of transparency), inefficiency ...

In a file sharing peer-to peer system trust is essential to attain enhanced cooperation between peers. Reputation is utilized in reputation-based peer-to-peer systems to form trust between peers. Commonly in these systems, extremely reputable peers will be chosen to upload requested files and thus diminishing malicious uploads in the system considerably. Conversely, malicious peers should be en...

The discovery of links between resources within knowledge bases is of crucial importance to realize the vision of the Semantic Web. Addressing this task is especially challenging when dealing with geo-spatial datasets due to their sheer size and the potential complexity of single geo-spatial objects. Yet, so far, little attention has been paid to the characteristics of geo-spatial data within t...

W explains variability in norms of cooperation across organizations and cultures? One answer comes from the tendency of individuals to internalize typically successful behaviors as norms. Different institutional structures can cause different behavioral norms to be internalized. These norms are then carried over into atypical situations beyond the reach of the institution. Here, we experimental...

In this study we investigate the performance of investment trust new issues during their first 750 days of trading. Research on the initial performance of new issues has documented that abnormal returns are obtained during the first day of trading. We compare the performance of investment trust new issues with the performance of size and style-based matching investment trusts taking the multina...