While on-line shopping is considered as a special type of e-service, the adoption rate of this service in Taiwan has been paid attention recently. The initial adoption of on-line shopping is the important driving force to further influence the use and continued use of this service. The model of Trust and technology acceptance model (TAM) in Gefen et al. [1] has been well studied in on-line shop...

Consumer disposition to the information quality of the website, trust, privacy concerns, reputation, security concerns, and the company’s reputation have strong effects on Internet consumers’ trust in the website. Major two critical problems for both e-commerce consumers and sites are privacy and security. Privacy is the control over one’s personal data whereas; security is the attempted access...

Trust management is becoming crucial in open systems because they may contain malicious and untrustworthy service providers. Trust management in multi-agent systems (used to model open systems) has gained a huge amount of attention from researchers in recent years. In our previous work, we proposed a generic agent trust management framework, called ScubAA, which is based on the theory of Human ...

the purpose of this research is to identify factors and components that affect a trust-based cooperation in the automobile supply chain and their impact on the performance of the supply chain companies. this paper includes 2 parts. in the first part, by studying the research history and literature and interviewing academic and industrial scholars and experts, four hidden variables of trust-base...

Trust is a fundamental concept that is critical in human decision processes in almost all domains, but of particular relevance in the domain of computer security. In many computer systems deployed today, trust is only modeled indirectly through a serious of formal rules and regulations describing when privileges are to be granted or revoked. Recently, research has been conducted into the area o...

The topic of enhancing security in XML databases is important as it includes protecting sensitive data and providing a secure environment to users. In order to improve security and provide dynamic access control for XML databases, we presented XLog file to calculate user trust values by recording users’ bad transaction, errors and query severities. Severity-aware trust-based access control for ...

Trust decisions on inter-enterprise collaborations involve a trustor’s subjective evaluation of its willingness to participate in the specific collaboration, given the risks and incentives involved. In earlier work, we have built support on automating routine trust decisions based on a combination of risk, reputation and incentive information. Non-routine cases must be dealt with by human users...

With the development of the Internet, E-commerce is growing at an exponential rate, and lots of online stores are built up to sell their goods online. A major factor influencing the successful adoption of E-commerce is consumer’s trust. For new or unknown Internet business, consumers’ lack of trust has been cited as a major barrier to its proliferation. As web sites provide key interface for co...