Multi-criteria decision analysis provides an effective and valuable method of articulating and structuring deliberations within public participation. Public participation means that citizens are involved in the public decision making that has an effect on them. In order to encourage participation while integrating the deliberative perspectives from various participants in public sector, we shou...

Linked data and Semantic Web technologies enable people to navigate across heterogeneous sources of data thus making it easier for them to explore and develop multiple perspectives for use in making decisions and solving problems. While the Semantic Web offers benefits for developers and users, several new challenges are emerging that may negatively impact users’ trust in Web-based collaborativ...

In emergencies, collaborators in ad hoc teams often must quickly share information across boundaries. In order for good decisions to be made under severe time pressure, participants must trust one another and feel confident that the data they use will support their decision-making. The data must also be of adequate quality (at a minimum, it must be accurate and timely) to aid the decision-makin...

Recently, resolving the problem of evaluating and selecting the Cloud Infrastructure Service (CIS) according to trust criteria has become a complex software engineering process. Cloud service Providers (CSPs) and Cloud Service Requesters (CSRs)both have to face great uncertainty and complexity regarding the degree of CIS trustworthiness. Therefore, many of the normalization methods have been de...

AIM Trust is an essential element in physician-patient interaction fostering in general adherence and improving patient- and physician-reported outcomes. Regarding severely injured patients, trust-building behaviour is important because of the severity of injuries and therefore potential associated physical and psychological consequences. The objective of this study was to identify significant ...

As e-communities grow in both quality and quantity, their online users require more appropriate tools to suite their needs in such environments. Many such tools are not explicitly needed in real-world communities where humans directly interact with each other. Trust making and reputation ascription are among the most important examples of such tools. Humans often build trust relationships throu...

Computational Trust and Reputation (CTR) systems are platforms capable of collecting trust information about candidate partners and of computing confidence scores for each one of these partners. These systems start to be viewed as vital elements in environments of electronic institutions, as they support fundamental decision making processes, such as the selection of business partners and the a...

Online product recommendation agents are becoming increasingly available on websites to assist consumers with reducing information overload, provide advice in finding suitable products, and facilitate online consumer decision-making. Central of these services is consumer trust in the agents. In several recent studies, the trust construct has been successfully integrated into the Technology Adop...

Enterprise computing is currently moving towards more open, collaborative systems. It becomes essential for enterprise success that joining a business network is made efficient, despite the technical and semantic interoperability challenges involved in connecting different information and communication systems. Trust management is an important factor in the collaboration, as traditional trust-b...

Due to the increased popularity of social networking sites, a new platform called social commerce has emerged. Social commerce facilitates online interactions and user contributions to assist them in conducting commercial transactions. In this study, we rely on risk-return strategy in consumers’ decision making to study drivers and deterrents of social commerce use. We study both purchasing and...