Building on the literature that investigates citizen and voter trust in government, we analyze the topic of voter confidence in the American electoral process. Our data comes from two national telephone surveys where voters were asked the confidence they have that their vote for president in the 2004 election was recorded as intended. We present preliminary evidence that suggests confidence in ...

How to develop a trust management model and then to efficiently control and manage nodes is an important issue in the scope of social network security. In this paper, a trust management model based on a cloud model is proposed. The cloud model uses a specific computation operator to achieve the transformation from qualitative concepts to quantitative computation. Additionally, this can also be ...

Reliable, distributed applications based on Internet, such as e-commerce system rely heavily on trust path among involved parties. This article introduces an efficient trust model based trust service, Independent Trust Intermediary Service model using Smart Trust List, for trust management. Fundamentally, Independent Trust Intermediary Service is facilities for distributing certificates of CAs ...

drought is random and nonlinear phenomenon and using linear stochastic models, nonlinear artificial neural network and hybrid models is advantaged for drought forecasting. this paper presents the performances of autoregressive integrated moving average (arima), direct multi-step neural network (dmsnn), recursive multi-step neural network (rmsnn), hybrid stochastic neural network of directive ap...

Objective Social business is a sub-category of electronic business that seeks social, innovative and cooperative approaches within online markets and also uses social media to attract social partnership and cooperation of such network users to support online purchasing and services. Trust is considered as an effective factor leading to successful social business. Because of the growing populari...

Trust issue is developing into an important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within everyday life. Although a lot of studies focus on salient factors that persuade consumer trust towards online vendors, few studies address the issue that online trust could be affected by consumers using cognitive information processes or simple cues to build their trust toward online vendor...

In this paper, we propose a facilitator which finds capable and trustworthy partners on behalf of client users, which helps users form and maintain e-partnerships for electronic commerce and electronic collaboration. Unlike existing capability-based facilitators or matchmakers, the facilitator collects and maintains private “wordof-mouth” trust information as well as capabilities from each user...

Recently, Trust has been recognized as an important factor for Grid computing security. In this paper, we propose a trust model in Grid system. It consists of Application Domain (AD), Client Domain (CD), Resource Domain (RD), and Trust Manager (TM). TM controls the relationship between RD and CD depending on the trust level value of each client and classification of each resource. Performance c...

Trust is a useful model for the interactions of Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) in Vehicular Cyber-Physical System (VCPS). Given a dynamic nature in transportation, traditional static trust models cannot effectively create the trust relationship among moving vehicles, and cannot handle quickly and dynamically the frequent vehicular interactions in a network topology. A novel trust model of VAN...