Trust has become essential in computer science as a way of assisting the process of decision-making, such as access control. In any system, several tasks may be performed, and each of these tasks might pose different associated trust values between the entities of the system. For instance, in a file system, reading and overwriting a file are two tasks that pose different trust values between th...

Recent calls have been placed for researchers to consider trust within wider theoretical conceptualizations, and in doing so, undertake a ‘reality check’ on existing theories and established methods of empirical inquiry. We respond to this by analysing trust as a social construction created within unique socially constructed contexts, such as boundaries. Actors assign meaning to boundaries whic...

Cloud computing has become the burning research topic in the present as it seems to fulfill the current business needs by making the resources of hardware, software, platform and infrastructure available to the consumers as per their requirement and demands whenever and wherever they want. This leads to a lot of implementation challenges that come across, of which the most eminent are trust and...

As Web-based online communities are rapidly growing, the agents in social groups need to know their measurable belief of trust for safe and successful interactions. In this paper, we propose a formal model of reputation resulting from available feedbacks in online communities. The notion of trust can be defined as an aggregation of consensus given a set of reputations. The expected trust of an ...

This paper investigates how interface design can help to overcome the proclaimed ‘lack of trust’ in e-commerce sites. Based on existing social science knowledge on trust, and our own exploratory study using Grounded Theory methods, we developed a model of consumer decision making in online shopping. Due to the separation in space and time when engaging in ecommerce, there is an increased need f...

introduction social trust is an important issue in development matter. it is a new mater and concept in development in general and rural development in particular. dimensions of social trust are the most important purpose for bi-lateral and multi-lateral behaviors. people trust to each other to make relation and through this way they learnt that without participation and cooperation they cannot...

In Online Social Networks (OSNs), participants can conduct rich activities, where trust is one of the most important factors for their decision making. This necessitates the evaluation of the trustworthiness between two unknown participants along the social trust paths between them based on the trust transitivity properties (i.e., if A trustsB andB trusts C, then A can trust C to some extent). ...

The possibility of resolving the tension between trust as a psychological condition and trust as a general organizing principle depends on assumptions about the convergence of expressed and perceived trust relations. In empirical organizational research these assumptions are frequently left implicit and only rarely modeled directly. Using data that we have collected on trust relations within th...

During their everyday decision making, humans consider the interplay between two types of trust: vertical trust and horizontal trust. Vertical trust captures the trust relationships that exist between individuals and institutions, while horizontal trust represents the trust that can be inferred from the observations and opinions of others. Although researchers are actively exploring both vertic...