This paper explores the role of trust in knowledge sharing in day-to-day operations within organizations. Trust in terms of interpersonal and inter-group relations in knowledge sharing situations within organizations is reviewed. It focuses on positive knowledge sharing and trust. Trust is determined to be one of the several antecedents to knowledge sharing as well as being integral to other va...

We all highly depend and rely on the trustworthiness of information and services provided by various parties and institutions. Reputation systems are one possibility to support individuals in distinguishing trustworthy partners from malicious and unreliable parties. In this paper, we discuss possibilities and limitations of different types of reputation systems and their underlying trust models...

As an important concept in network security, trust is interpreted as a set of relations among agents participating in the network activities. Trust relations are based on previous behaviors of agents as well as on trust documents. We present our results on distributed trust management in MANET. The trust information or evidence used to evaluate trustworthiness is provided by peers, i.e. the age...

employee’s resistance to change and the need to recognize its affecting factors in order to manage it has an important role in organizational development management. this study has examined the impact of top management’s hypocrisy on employee’s resistance to change and investigates mediating role of employees’ trust to top management. based on the research variables, a questionnaire was designe...

Two studies explored the influence of group identification and the functional relations between groups on outgroup liking. In a laboratory study, Study 1 (N = 112) found that outgroup liking was highest when group identification was high and relations between groups were cooperative, but outgroup liking was lowest when group identification was high and relations were competitive. In a field rep...

We propose generic declarative definitions of individual and collective trust relations between interacting agents and agent collections, and trust domains of trust-related agents in distributed systems. Our definitions yield (1) (in)compatibility, implicational, and transitivity results for trust relationships, including a Datalog-implementability result for their logical structure; (2) comput...

Within the realm of network security, we interpret the concept of trust as a relation among entities that participate in various protocols. Trust relations are based on evidence created by the previous interactions of entities within a protocol. In this work, we are focusing on the evaluation of trust evidence in Ad Hoc Networks. Because of the dynamic nature of Ad Hoc Networks, trust evidence ...