Trust is fundamental to all human exchange. It is therefore necessary to understand the behavioural logic and neural underpinnings of how it is established, maintained, broken, and repaired. There are open evolutionary questions about how trust mechanisms should and do evolve; however, here we focus on more proximate psychological and neural mechanisms that mediate trust. Our perspective single...

Drawing on the existing theoretical literature, a conceptual model of trust is developed. The model suggests that trust in technology, institutional trust, and social trust are three dimensions of the overarching trust construct that should be considered in models of technology acceptance. The preliminary empirical evidence suggests that institutional trust and social trust are important factor...

A study in political psychology identifies four item-based factors of political trustworthiness in the USA: capability, consistency and closeness, egotism and opportunism, and communal commitment. Additionally, a list of items describe epistemic expertise. Together, these elements make up a description of political source credibility in the USA. The current study examines the power of these ele...

Trustworthiness is a key aspect for coalition formation with agents in the energy domain. In this paper first results for developing a trust model for a multi-agent-based energy management system are given. First, the terms trust, reputation and trustworthiness are defined. After that an exemplary scenario of a trustworthy coalition formation of energy agents is described. The main result of th...

Establishing trust in vehicular networks is a critical but also difficult task. In this position paper, we present a new trust architecture and model -situation-aware trust (SAT) to address several important trust issues in vehicular networks that rely on the current Internet infrastructure. The new model addresses several important trust issues that we believe are essential to overcome the wea...

Trust models as thus far described in the literature can be seen as a monolithic structure: a trust model is provided with a variety of inputs and the model performs calculations, resulting in a trust evaluation as output. The agent has no direct method of adapting its trust model to its needs in a given context. In this article, we propose a first step in allowing an agent to reason about its ...

Trust in social learning environment is influenced greatly by rapid-changing social elements. Therefore it is necessary for us to improve the KeyNote trust model to adapt the dynamic user behavior in social learning. In this paper, we mainly devote ourselves to the work of building a dynamic trust model based on indirect trust relationship. We take advantage of KeyNote to build the dynamic trus...

Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two national telephone surveys where voters were asked the confidence they have that their vote for president in the 2004 election was recorded as intended. We present preliminary evidence that suggests confidence in ...

How to develop a trust management model and then to efficiently control and manage nodes is an important issue in the scope of social network security. In this paper, a trust management model based on a cloud model is proposed. The cloud model uses a specific computation operator to achieve the transformation from qualitative concepts to quantitative computation. Additionally, this can also be ...

Reliable, distributed applications based on Internet, such as e-commerce system rely heavily on trust path among involved parties. This article introduces an efficient trust model based trust service, Independent Trust Intermediary Service model using Smart Trust List, for trust management. Fundamentally, Independent Trust Intermediary Service is facilities for distributing certificates of CAs ...