In smart environments, pervasive computing contributes in improving daily life activities for dependent people by providing personalized services. Nevertheless, those environments do not guarantee a satisfactory level for protecting the user privacy and ensuring the trust between communicating entities. In this paper, we propose a trust evaluation model based on user past and present behavior. ...

the main purpose followed in this study was to evaluate the role of social capital on organizational learning (ol) of jihad-e-agriculture organization's staffs. the statistical population consisted of all staffs of jihad-e-agriculture organization in kurdistan province (n=150). applying census, a questionnaire was sent to all the members of the study from whom 124 members finally filled in...

The main motivation for organizations to e-collaborate is to enable knowledge sharing and learning in order to effectively address a new business opportunity by forming a Virtual Organization (VO) for solving the given task. One of the difficulties in VO creation is appropriate partner selection with mutual trust, as well as the support for the management of trust in a broader Virtual organizat...

Shared understanding between the IS and business units has been identified as one of the key factors in successful utilization of IT, as there is considerable evidence in the literature linking IS shared business-IT understanding with increased IS use, increase IS unit success, and improved process and organizational performance. However, limited work has been done examining the factors that fo...

in order to design and validate the social capital questionnaire for employees of physical education organization, the main research question was whether a social capital questionnaire designed by researchers had sufficient validity and reliability. the population of the research consisted of employees of the organization (n=700). 299 subjects were selected as the sample by systematic random sa...

We developed three new theoretical insights into the art of hierarchical clustering in the context of web-search. A notable example where these results may be useful is Trust Based Collaborative Search, where an active user consults agents that in the past performed a similar search. We proceed with this as an example throughout the paper, even though the results are more broadly applicable. Th...

Automated trust negotiation (ATN) is an approach that establishes mutual trust between strangers wishing to share resources or conduct business by gradually requesting and disclosing digitally signed credentials. Previous work on improving negotiation efficiency mainly focuses on using history negotiation information, which may lead to unnecessary information leakage and cannot improve the nego...

B. Gajdzik, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, Katowice, Poland K. Grzybowska, Poznan University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering Management, Poznan, Poland The article is an introduction to the notion of building trust in supply chains. Foreign publishers off er many articles connected with trust and some of the most important ones were quo...

in this article, the social capital concept has been thoroughly surveyed. consequently, this concept and its related dimensions and factors has been extracted from imam ali's point of view (nahjolbalaghah letters). by implementing the extracting adaptive concepts and exerting suitable qualitative research methods, an islamic framework for social capital improvement in islamic communities h...

This paper models a supply network as a complex adaptive system (CAS), in which firms or agents interact with one another and adapt themselves. And it applies agent-based social simulation (ABSS), a research method of simulating social systems under the CAS paradigm, to observe emergent outcomes. The main purposes of this paper are to consider a social factor, trust, in modeling the agents' beh...