BACKGROUND Patients' trust in physicians and in the medical profession is vital for a successful patient-physician relationship. Trust is especially salient in critical medical situations, such as serious side-effects, hospitalizations, and diagnoses of serious medical conditions, but most trust studies have been done with the general population or in routine primary care settings. This study e...

In a Grid Computing scenario, where the market players are dynamic; traditional assumptions for establishing and evaluating trust, do not hold good anymore. There are two different methods for handling access controls to the resources in grids: first by using policy based approach; where logical rules and verifiable properties are encoded in signed credentials and second by using reputation bas...

At the turn of the millennium, lack of trust was considered one of the major obstacles to developing successful ecommerce enterprises. It was realised that in order for the ecommerce to flourish and any online service to be successful, creating trust would become means to an end – a necessity. Furthermore, it was realised that understanding the real-world trust would be crucial to understanding...

Online prescription filling possesses great market potential; however, consumers’ perception of uncertainty tends to impede their adoption of online prescription filling. Trust is recognized as a critical factor affecting online shopping in general. We contend that trust can help consumers overcome perceived uncertainty, thereby enhancing their intention to adopt online prescription filling. Dr...

This paper employs the methodology of Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) to investigate under what conditions trust can be viable in markets. The emergence and breakdown of trust is modeled in a context of multiple buyers and suppliers. Agents adapt their trust in a partner, the weight they attach to trust relative to profitability, and their own trustworthiness, modeled as a threshold o...

The migration of processing of computational jobs from centralized systems to open distributed systems have resulted in many communication channels and transactions, to span a range of domains and organizations, not all of which can be trusted to the same extent. Inconsistencies in current trust relationships highlight the need for a flexible, general-purpose trust management system that can na...

BACKGROUND This study tests how various kinds of trust impact attitudes toward euthanasia among the general public. The indication that trust might have an impact on euthanasia attitudes is based on the slippery slope argument, which asserts that allowing euthanasia might lead to abuses and involuntary deaths. Adopting this argument usually leads to less positive attitudes towards euthanasia. T...

Trust is a central concept in public-key cryptography infrastructure and in security in general. We study its initial quanti…cation and its spread patterns. There is empirical evidence that in trust-based reputation model for virtual communities, it pays to restrict the clusters of agents to small sets with high mutual trust. We propose and motivate a mathematical model, where this phenomenon e...

Trust has been acknowledged to be an important determinant of e-commerce acceptance. Therefore, understanding the nature and importance of trust is momentous in promoting e-government adoption. This paper reviews the trust discussion in business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce and government-to-individuals (G2IS) e-government. The aim of the paper is to identify potential differences as well as co...