this paper attempts to rank the effective factors in making trust in social networks to provide the possibility of attracting and increasing users’ trust on these social networks for providers and designers of online social networks. identifying the effective factors in making trust in social networks is a multi-criteria decision making problem and most of effective factors are ambiguous and un...

Once information is loaded into a spreadsheet, it acquires properties that it may not deserve. These properties include believability, correctness, appropriateness, concreteness, integrity, tangibility, objectivity and authority. The information becomes reified. We describe a case study through which we were able to observe at close hand the reification of a demonstrably incorrect and inappropr...

Integrity constraints are important logical tools for the general organization of knowledge. Integrity constraints (in short: ICs), which are commonly used in the eld of deductive databases, specify general regularities like \a son is not older than his father." They facilitate the organization of knowledge in expert systems and can speed up the query-response time signiicantly. This paper pres...

Power grid analysis has recently risen to prominence due to the widespread use of lower supply voltages by power-conscious designs. Low supply voltages imply smaller noise margins and make the voltage drop across the power grid very critical since it can lead to overall slower circuits, signal integrity issues and ultimately to circuit malfunction. Verifying proper behavior of a power grid is a...

Proper name systems provide individuals with personal identifiers, and convey social and hereditary information. We identify a common information structure in the name grammars of the world’s languages, which makes this complex information processing task manageable, and evaluate the impact that the re-engineering of naming practices for legal and political purposes has had on the communicative...

The structural integrity of a cell depends on its cytoskeleton, which includes an actin network. This network is transient and depends upon the continual polymerization and depolymerization of actin. The degradation of an actin network, and a corresponding reduction in cell stiffness, can indicate the presence of disease. Numerical simulations will be invaluable for understanding the physics of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the effectiveness of the mere integration of social network applications to provide a signal concerning the “trustworthiness” of an unfamiliar e-vendor in order to enhance subsequent purchase intentions. Design/methodology/approach – To investigate the impact of web communities on consumers’ initial trust beliefs (i.e. ability, benevolence and inte...

background: one of the main challenges of healthcare systems of developing countries is health inequality. health inequality means inequality in individuals’ ability and proper functioning, resulting in inequality in social status and living conditions, which thwarts social interventions implemented by the government. objectives: this study aimed to determine and prioritize the social determina...

Social Lending is one of the latest trends in Social Networking, offering a communication and financial channel between individual borrowers and lenders. The various Social Lending transaction schemes could be subject to multiple security threats, in both financial and technical terms, which could affect the integrity of the service as well as the trust of citizens. This paper provides an overv...

In the Information Age, visual media take on powerful new forms. Photographs that were once printed on paper and stored in physical albums now exist as digital files. With the rise of social media, photo data has moved to the cloud for rapid dissemination. The upside can be measured in terms of increased efficiency, greater reach, or reduced printing costs. But there is a downside that is harde...