In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...

Trust in distributed systems is an inherently difficult problem, as nodes need to decide which other nodes to trust without a central, verifiably trusted authority. This paper evaluates the notion of a distributed sub-network of trust aggregators based on the NICE trust cookie and trust chain system. The aggregators simply keep the trust cookies, which prove delivery of a resource during a tran...

The possibility of resolving the tension between trust as a psychological condition and trust as a general organizing principle depends on assumptions about the convergence of expressed and perceived trust relations. In empirical organizational research these assumptions are frequently left implicit and only rarely modeled directly. Using data that we have collected on trust relations within th...

Low trust levels among project parties are generally believed to harm construction performance, but the role of in context information flow and solving design quality problems (DQP) remains understudied. Whereas lean management research highlights importance managing flow, few studies have investigated association between trust, DQP (or any combination thereof). This exploratory study investiga...

The computational trust paradigm supposes that it is possible to quantify trust relations that occur within some software systems. The paradigm covers a variety of trust systems, such as trust management systems, reputation systems and trust-based security systems. Different trust systems have different assumptions, and various trust models have been developed on top of these assumptions Typica...

In this paper, Access Aware Routing Protocol (AARP) towards Trust Management problem for Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is proposed. In MANET, nodes periodically move over the terrain space with transmission range. In this research work a scheme to handle trust establishment and aggregation issues are proposed. Unlike trust management in previous schemes, trust management in MANET involves neigh...

The extensive use of the Internet, for exchanging information, requesting and offering services make us to interact with unknown entities. Human use trust to facilitate interaction and accept the risk, when complete information is unavailable. In such situations, trust establishment mechanisms enable establishment of trust between unknown entities. Trust is a complex concept to define stringent...

As our global interdependence grows, understanding how culture affects trust and how we can manage trust in intercultural relations is imperative. However, relatively few studies have focused on the relationship between trust and culture, and little of this work examined multiple trust phases sequentially to reveal the dynamics of trust over time. This research examined how the cultural differe...

Trust can be used to measure our confidence that a secure system behaves as expected. We had previously proposed a vector model of trust [1]. In this work we address the problem of trust management using the vector model. We develop a new trust management engine which we call VTrust (from Vector Trust). The trust management engine stores and manages current as well as historical information abo...