Rating systems are used by many websites, which allow customers to rate available items according to their own experience. Subsequently, reputation models are used to aggregate available ratings in order to generate reputation scores for items. A problem with current reputation models is that they provide solutions to enhance accuracy of sparse datasets not thinking of their models performance ...

Online brand reputation is of increasing significance to many organisations and institutes around the globe. As the usage of the www continues to increase it has become the most commonly used platform for users and customers of services and products to discuss their views and experiences. The nature of this www discussion can significantly influence the perception and hence the success of a bra...

Brand reputation is important when choosing an education. Universities that already have a brand can more easily attract prospective new students. There phenomenon where Private are using extended to compete. The purpose of this research analyze the impact extension on intention in private universities. quantitative method Structural Equation Modeling uses structured questionnaire. questionnair...

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ROBERT GLYNN practised as a physician at Cambridge throughout the whole of the second half of the eighteenth century. The reputation of the university was then lower than at any time in its history and there were few students. Glynn was one of a small group of men who made an attempt to maintain the continuity of medical teaching at Cambridge. In his day he enjoyed an excellent reputation as a ...

Three experiments examined how norms characteristic of a "culture of honor" manifest themselves in the cognitions, emotions, behaviors, and physiological reactions of southern White males. Participants were University of Michigan students who grew up in the North or South. In 3 experiments they were insulted by a confederate who bumped into the participant and called him an "asshole". Compared ...

Editors Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey put together a compilation of articles discussing the implications of social networking and other internet tools in the shaping of systems throughout the world in The Reputation Society: How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World. Hassan Masum is Innovation Lead at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, Affiliate Researcher at the Waterloo I...

This paper analyzes a model of moral hazard in portfolio management. Managers wish to earn the higher fees associated with active management but are averse to the effort of identifying superior trading strategies through research. Previous research has focused on contracts which offer explicit incentives. In this paper I address optimal contracting between an investor and a portfolio manager wh...

Trust between communicating peers is increasingly catching the attention of the research community. Several methods have been proposed to assist the task of establishing trust between communicating peers; all of which make use of reputation mechanisms. We find that in present literature, reputation is incorrectly defined, as some chief aspects of reputation are not considered while defining it....

The ERA 2010 rankings reflect badly on Australian university ICT performance, especially by comparison with some likely benchmark disciplines, for reasons not exclusively under the control of ICT researchers, groups or schools. As a result nevertheless, the future of Australian academic ICT is under threat of reduced government funding, from diminished international reputation and from universi...