What is the connection between the UNCITRAL model for electronic commerce laws and the U.S. 2000 presidential election imbroglio? How does this connection, if recognized, resonates certain milestones of our civilization's heritage, legacies from the Phoenicians and from the Roman empire? There is something basic about human communication and reasoning which weaves through these themes, in the w...

This paper will explore some of the implications of attending to the performative aspects of language for the sociological understanding of issues of risk and trust among lay communities. Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens have alerted us to the way that in late or reflexive modernity trust in authority cannot be taken for granted, but increasingly has to be actively earned and actively invested. ...

BACKGROUND While some studies directly address the issue of changes in union formation in Russia and Eastern Europe, few have focused on attitudes and norms regarding marriage and cohabitation. In Russia cohabitation has risen sharply in the last decades, but recently its level has stabilized and even decreased slightly. OBJECTIVE We intend to highlight gender and educational differences in per...

Trust is fundamental to all human exchange. It is therefore necessary to understand the behavioural logic and neural underpinnings of how it is established, maintained, broken, and repaired. There are open evolutionary questions about how trust mechanisms should and do evolve; however, here we focus on more proximate psychological and neural mechanisms that mediate trust. Our perspective single...

the increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. through the development of semantic web, one major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. this raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. each user knows the trustworthiness of ...

Role-based Trust management (RT) languages are used for representing policies and credentials in decentralized, distributed access control systems. RT languages combine trust management and role-based access control features. A credential provides information about the keys, rights and qualifications from one or more trusted authorities. The paper presents a set-theoretic semantics of Role-base...

Bitcoin has become an increasingly popular cryptocurrency because of the anonymity it offers. Any transaction between two bitcoin users is stored in a public ledger (called blockchain). While there has been analysis of various Bitcoin networks [RS12, FKP14, OKH13], most of the papers consider only unsigned Bitcoin networks and only do basic analysis of the transaction graph, such as amount of b...

Legitimacy or “fairness” seems a key requirement for trust in computer-mediated social environments. Trust in turn seems necessary for productive community interactions like ecommerce. But unless legitimacy is built into social software, achieving trust may not be possible. This means expressing apparently vague social "rights" as specific information system (IS) requirements, i.e. carrying out...

There is a strong trend shift in the favor of adopting virtualization to get business benefits. The provisioning of virtualized enterprise resources is one kind of many possible scenarios. Where virtualization promises clear advantages it also poses new security challenges which need to be addressed to gain stakeholders confidence in the dynamics of new environment. One important facet of these...

Timed automata are a widely used formalism for modeling real-time systems, which is employed in a class of successful model checkers such as UPPAAL. These tools can be understood as trust-multipliers: we trust their correctness to deduce trust in the safety of systems checked by these tools. However, mistakes have previously been made. This particularly regards an approximation operation, which...