Establishing friendship relationships on Facebook often entails information sharing which is based on the social trust and implicit contract between users and their friends. In this context, Facebook offers applications (Apps) developed by third party application providers (AppPs), which may grant access to users’ personal data via Apps installed by their friends. Such access takes place outsid...

Lack of trust in online transactions has been cited, by past scholars, as the main reason for the dislike of online shopping. The objective of this paper is to develop a framework for studying the influence of website characteristics on Trust in online travel portals and empirically validate it. In the first phase, a causal model is developed in which the relative importance attached to the dif...

Trust relationships between user pairs play a vital role in making decisions for social network users. In reality, available explicit trust relations are often extremely sparse, therefore, inferring unknown trust relations attracts increasing attention in recent years. In this paper, a new approach originating from machine learning is proposed to predict trust relationships in social networks b...

In the recent years, trust has become a crucial issue in studying agentbased distributed autonomous systems such as Semantic Web or Peerto-Peer, in which software agents need to select the most trustworthy partners to interact. Most current computational trust models are mainly based on two basic factors: personal experience trust and reference trust on a single issue of trust. These models may...

Social commerce is a promising new paradigm of e-commerce. Given the open and dynamic nature of social media infrastructure, the governance structures of social commerce are usually realized through reputation mechanisms. However, the existing approaches to the prediction of trust in future interactions are based on personal observations and/or publicly shared information in social commerce app...

Users have become used to accepting two unfortunate consequences of complying with requests to supply personal data to service providers. Firstly, the personal data that a user supplies becomes the property of the service provider, which means that the data subject loses control over what is subsequently done with their data. Secondly, provision of services is made on an “all or nothing” basis,...

Current wireless personal area network (WPAN) standards provide no method for two previously unacquainted parties to authenticate to one another in a trusted manner upon first encounter. The paper details the research leading up to the development of Friendly Authentication and Communication Experience (FACE). The FACE methodology will be developed to be independent of wirelessly enabled mobile...

in this article inorder to identify variables related to employee’s psychological empowerment in qom education organization, at first, psychological empowerment and it’s components (trust, impact, self-determination, meaning, competence) are set as a dependent variable and participative management, training, fostering personal mastery experiences , amotional erousal, connecting to outcomes, hav...

Recommender systems, notably collaborative and hybrid information filtering approaches, vitally depend on neighborhood formation, i.e., selecting small subsets of most relevant peers from which to receive personal product recommendations. However, common similarity-based neighborhood forming techniques imply various drawbacks, rendering the conception of decentralized recommender systems virtua...