Trust is essential to a communication channel. The trust relationships, which play an important role in Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs), need to be formalized for providing a reliable modelling methodology to support secure digital communications. In this paper, we present a typed modal logic used for specifying and reasoning about trust in PKIs. In order to study trust relationships within P...

It is difficult to know whether different dimensions of trust have different effects on local residents' acceptance of nuclear power plants (NPPs). In previous research such trust has been considered as a single dimensional concept. This paper divides trust into goodwill trust and competence trust, and we explore the ways in which trust affects acceptance of NPPs through structural equation mod...

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...

In this paper, we consider the modelling of trust relationships in distributed systems based on a formal mathematical structure. We discuss different forms of trust. In particular, we address the base level authentication trust at the lower layer with a hierarchy of trust relationships at a higher level. Then we define and discuss trust direction and symmetric characteristics of trust for colla...

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low), each decision is categorized and analyzed. We investigate how the inventory manager`s ordering behavior varies regarding their type and lev...

The systematic review methodology has been employed to review trust related studies in cloud computing. It was observed that trusted computing technologies and reputation based approaches are the main approaches to trust engineering in cloud computing. Also, trusted third party approaches and the deployment model play a significant role in enhancing trust between service providers and consumers...

In the recent years, trust has become a crucial issue in studying agentbased distributed autonomous systems such as Semantic Web or Peerto-Peer, in which software agents need to select the most trustworthy partners to interact. Most current computational trust models are mainly based on two basic factors: personal experience trust and reference trust on a single issue of trust. These models may...

While an increasing number of trust studies examine technological artifacts as trust recipients, there is still a lack of basic understanding of how technology trust relates to traditional trust and its role within the broader nomological net articulated in trust research. This paper suggests that technology trust is distinct from interpersonal trust (i.e., trust in humans) due to the different...

We investigated the influence of reflections on self/others’ trust within group-based problem solving. We assessed the role of trust dynamics on perspective-taking activities within conflictive groups, extending the experimental framework used by Hayashi (2012) and including conversational agents for controlling participants’ interactions related to trust dynamics and perspective taking behavio...