Straining for Shared Meaning in Organization Science: Problems of Trust and Distrust

Straining for Shared Meaning in Organization Science: Problems of Trust and Distrust

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Trust, Distrust, and Power

A Framework for Trust and Distrust Networks

In this age of internet and electronic commerce it is becoming increasingly important to have and to manipulate information about the trustworthiness of the content or service providers in order to make informed decisions. This paper explores realistic models of trust and distrust based on partially ordered discrete values and proposes a framework, which is sensitive to local, relative ordering...

Gradual trust and distrust in recommender systems

Trust networks among users of a recommender system (RS) prove beneficial to the quality and amount of the recommendations. Since trust is often a gradual phenomenon, fuzzy relations are the pre-eminent tools for modeling such networks. However, as current trust-enhanced RSs do not work with the notion of distrust, they cannot differentiate unknown users from malicious users, nor represent incon...

Aggregation of Gradual Trust and Distrust

Trust and distrust are two increasingly important metrics in social networks, reflecting users’ attitudes and relationships towards each other. In this paper, we study the indirect derivation of these metrics’ values for users that do not know each other, but are connected through the network. In particular, we focus on the aggregation step that is required for fusing trust and distrust informa...