This paper extends earlier work in the use of 'Agent-based Computational Economics' (ACE) for modelling the development of cooperation between firms. Inter-firm relations have increasingly been analyzed by means of transaction cost economics (TCE). However, as has been widely acknowledged, TCE does not include any dynamics of learning, adaptation or innovation, and it does not include trust. It...

Nowadays, digital systems are connected through complex architectures. These systems involve persons, physical and digital resources such that we can consider that a system consists of elements from two worlds, the social world and the digital world, and their relations. Users perform activities like chatting, buying, sharing data, etc. Evaluating and choosing appropriate systems involve aspect...

objective: citizenship identity as it is understood from the component words is a kind of distinction and recognition of intimates from outsiders which has a historical background. meaning of citizenship holds the concepts such as rights, responsibilities and duties, as well as a sense of belonging that in accordance with others and executive agencies will be meaningful and indicates a kind of ...

In this paper, we consider the analysis and modelling of trust in distributed information systems. We review the relations of trust relationships in our previous work. We discuss trust layers and hierarchy based on formal definition of trust relationship. We provide a set of definitions to describe the properties of trust direction and trust symmetry under our taxonomy framework. In order to an...

the core concept of this article i.e. social capital consists of three main components: scope of social relations, level of social trust, and rate of reciprocity. the research is accomplished through 600 cases of indian and iranian female secondary school students and their parents, in two cities of chandigarh in india and tehran in iran. findings of the research show that the scope of social r...

Trust and distrust networks are usually extremely sparse and the vast majority of the existing algorithms for trust/distrust prediction suffer from the data sparsity problem. In this paper, following the research from psychology and sociology, we envision that users’ emotions such as happiness and anger are strong indicators of trust/distrust relations. Meanwhile the popularity of social media ...

Traditionally, to handle security for stand-alone computers and small networks, user authentication and access control mechanisms would be almost enough. However, considering distributed networks such as the Internet and pervasive environments, these kinds of approaches are confronted with flexibility challenges and scalability problems. This is mainly because open environments lack a central c...

As our global interdependence grows, understanding how culture affects trust and how we can manage trust in intercultural relations is imperative. However, relatively few studies have focused on the relationship between trust and culture, and little of this work examined multiple trust phases sequentially to reveal the dynamics of trust over time. This research examined how the cultural differe...