We have introduced the notion of user profiling with trust, as a solution to the problem of uncertainty and unmanageable exposure of personal data during access, retrieval and consumption by web applications. Our solution suggests explicit modeling of trust and embedding trust metrics and mechanisms within very fabric of user profiles. This has in turn allowed information systems to consume and...

the present study examined the role of social capital on financial performance of farming cooperatives in khouzestan province. the method of research was descriptive- correlative. the population consisted of 3273 members of farming cooperatives. based on cochran formula, 213 persons were selected. the survey was conducted using a questionnaire. content validity of the questionnaire was determin...

In a recent paper by Berners-Lee et al [2] the World Wide Web of the future is proposed. It is a Web where data is de ned in a manner that allows machines to \understand" the content that is available on the Web. No longer will the content of documents be understood by humans alone. The Web of which we speak promises a plethora of features and functionality not yet possible using the World Wide...

Nowadays dozens of people share their content in the current Web 2.0 space, talk with friends in social networking sites such as Facebook and live on the Net in many other ways. They do all this quite naturally, forgetting the healthy cautiousness sometimes. In real life we rely on trusted people. Do we know how to reflect real-world trust mechanisms into on-line social software? In the article...

Semantic Web technologies will deeply influence the further development of the Internet Economy. A major challenge is, however, to find a practical solution for trust problems arising from their deployment in real-world scenarios. In this paper we develop a concrete application scenario based on Semantic Web technologies for the domain of business to consumer electronic commerce to illustrate t...

Peer-to-peer computing has emerged as a significant paradigm for providing distributed services, in particular collaboration for content sharing and distributed computing. However, this computing paradigm suffers from several drawbacks that obstruct its wide adoption. Lack of trust between peers is one of the most serious issues, which causes a number of security challenges in the P2P systems. ...

In this paper method has been proposed to improve the precision of Personalized Web Search (PWS) using Trust based Hubs and Authorities(HA) where Hubs are the high quality resource pages and Authorities are the high quality content pages in the specific topic generated using HyperlinkInduced Topic Search (HITS). The Trust is used in HITS for increasing the reliability of HITS in identifying the...