IMPORTANCE OF TRUST AND TRUST MANAGEMENT BY ORGANIZATIONS

P2P Network Trust Management Survey

Peer-to-peer applications (P2P) are no longer limited to home users, and start being accepted in academic and corporate environments. While file sharing and instant messaging applications are the most traditional examples, they are no longer the only ones benefiting from the potential advantages of P2P networks. For example, network file storage, data transmission, distributed computing, and co...

Trust and Performance Management in Non-Profit Organizations

Performance management as a steering instrument is slowly gaining momentum in nonprofit organizations. Taking the mixed experience with performance management in the public and non-profit sector into account, the article looks into the potential of trust as a soft factor which could lead to more effective performance management in the non-profit sector. As discussed, trust per se, is for variou...

Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations

Trust Modeling and Management: From Social Trust to Digital Trust

This chapter introduces trust modeling and trust management as a means of managing trust in digital systems. Transforming from a social concept of trust to a digital concept, trust modeling and management help in designing and implementing a trustworthy digital system, especially in emerging distributed systems. Furthermore, the authors hope that understanding the current challenges, solutions ...

Federal Management of Virtual Organizations with Trust Evaluation

Dynamical and flexible resource aggregation tools are required in 21 century research. Scientists need to aggregate various digital equipments and cooperate with each other in different organizations through Virtual Organizations (VO) on the Internet in a flexible and dynamical way. In this cooperation and resource sharing process, trust evaluation is of great importance for flexible VO managem...