Can We Trust Web Page Metadata?

Can We Trust Trust?

In this concluding essay I shall try to reconstruct what seem to me the central questions about trust that the individual contributions presented in this volume raise and partly answer. In the first section, I briefly qualify the claim that there is a degree of rational cooperation that should but does not exist, and I shall give a preliminary indication of the importance of the beliefs we hold...

Can We Manage Trust?

The term trust management suggests that trust can be managed, for example by creating trust, by assessing trustworthiness, or by determining optimal decisions based on specific levels of trust. The problem to date is that trust management in online environments is a diverse and ill defined discipline. In fact, the term trust management is being used with very different meanings in different con...

Can We Trust Test Outcomes?

Software development is an on-going process. To ensure that the changes made do not break previous functionality, a regression test suite is maintained along with the source code. The correctness and the side effects of code changes are judged based on the output of the tests. However, are these tests’ outcomes always correct? Does a test failure imply a bug and do all tests passing imply a bug...

Can we trust your data?

The World Conversation: Web Page Metadata Generation From Social Sources

Over the past couple of years, social networks such as Twitter and Facebook have become the primary source for consuming information on the Internet. One of the main differentiators of this content from traditional information sources available on the Web is the fact that these social networks surface individuals’ perspectives. When social media users post and share updates with friends and fol...