Trust influences interactions among individuals and organizations but has been an elusive concept to define and measure. The Organizational Trust Inventory (OTI) measures three dimensions of organizational trust, as defined by Cummings and Bromiley (in: Kramer and Tyler (eds) Trust in Organizations, 1996), believing or feeling that others: keep commitments, negotiate honestly, and do not take e...

In an increasingly automated and networked world humans are facing new problems stemming from the introduction of machine-intensive communication. The natural human ability to asses, accumulate and evaluate trust in other humans through direct interpersonal communications is significantly impaired when humans interact with systems alone. The development of applications that rely on trust, like ...

Consumers’ attitudes to trust and risk are key issues in food safety research and attention needs to be focused on clearly defining a framework for analysing consumer behaviour in these terms. By creating a platform, or benchmark, it is hoped that more succinct policy programmes may be initiated to better communicate relevant issues to consumers. In order to achieve this, a detailed review of t...

Trust propagation is the principle by which new trust relationships can be derived from pre-existing trust relationship. Trust transitivity is the most explicit form of trust propagation, meaning for example that if Alice trusts Bob, and Bob trusts Claire, then by transitivity, Alice will also trust Claire. This assumes that Bob recommends Claire to Alice. Trust fusion is also an important elem...

Several reliability-reputation models to support agents’ decisions have been proposed in the past and many of them combine together reliability and reputation in a synthetic trust measure. In this context, we present a new trust model, called TRR, that considers, from a mathematical viewpoint, the interdependence between these two trust measures. This important feature of TRR is exploited to dy...

In this paper, a sealed-bid auction protocol which mainly focuses on security issues: bid privacy, bidder anonymity and fairness problem is presented. The new proposal is motivated by the conflict between bidder anonymity and DOS (denial-of-service) attack from insider. It utilizes an efficient LPN-based authentication method to accomplish lightweight authentication. In order to share the deter...

EU institutions and member governments are committed to realising judicial cooperation as part of a strategy to guarantee and sustain security in the EU: the freedom, security and justice agenda. The three elements clash both in terms of their prioritisation, their mutual compatibility and their feasibility. The phrase judicial cooperation evokes ideals of value-free, neutral cooperation design...

While student perceptions of the fairness and trustworthiness of educational institutions have been shown to relate to civic participation, this relationship has not been extended to issues of continued participation in the education system. Using data from the IEA Civic Education Study of 14-yearolds, measures of trust in schools and perceptions of educational inequality are examined in their ...

Regulating water resources is a critically important yet increasingly complex component of the interaction between ecology and society. Many argue that effective water regulation relies heavily upon the compliance of water users. The relevant literature suggests that, rather than relying on external motivators for individual compliance, e.g., punishments and rewards, it is preferable to focus o...

Describes a novel Internet auction model achieving verifiable fairness, a requirement aimed at enhancing the trust of bidders in auctioneers. Distrust in remote auctioneers prevents bidders from participating in Internet auctioning. According to proposed survey reports, this study presents four characteristics that render the Internet untrustworthy for bidders. These intrinsic properties sugges...