Mutual trust in European Union law traditionally refers to a horizontal relationship between Member States, requiring them consider ‘all the other States be complying with EU law’, as Court of Justice has repeatedly stated. This Article considers new perspective: is it possible detect existence on one hand and Union’s institutions hand? If so, what are its legal manifestations? And light does s...

Several attempts have been made to analyze information diffusion on online knowledge sharing sites. In this poster, we report a preliminary study analyzing @cosme, a viral marketing site, which is among the largest community sites in Japan. The notable characteristics of @cosme are that users can bookmark their favorite reviewers; moreover, they can post their own reviews of products. In other ...

On the basis of goal/expectation theory, it was predicted that just as in interpersonal relationships, cooperation in social dilemma groups would increase only if both trust was high and group members had a common goal of cooperation. Introducing new measures of both these two processes to the social dilemma arena, the goal of mutual cooperation was assessed by the process of self–other merging...

According to transaction cost economics, contracts are always incomplete and offer opportunities to defect. Some level of trust is a sine qua non for trade. If the seller is better informed about product quality than the buyer, the buyer has to rely on information the seller provides or has to check the information by testing the product or tracing the supply chain processes, thus incurring ext...

We address the issue of trust among the principals in a multiparty transaction in a peer-to-peer system implementing a service-based architecture. We propose a model that allows peers to form instant federations and collectively consummate complex business transactions. A transaction is done in two phases. In the first phase services are selected and a federation is formed. In the second phase ...

Threads in a multithreaded process share the same address space and thus are implicitly assumed to be mutually trusted. However, one (compromised) thread attacking another is a real world threat. It remains challenging to achieve privilege separation for multithreaded applications so that the compromise or malfunction of one thread does not lead to data contamination or data leakage of other th...