Multi-agent paradigms have been developed for the negotiation and brokering in B2C e-commerce .Few of the models consider the mental states and social settings (trust and reputation) but rarely any model depicts their combination. In this work, we present three mathematical models. First cognitive computational model which is combined model of belief, desire, intention (BDI) model for agent’s m...

Social Networks have dominated growth and popularity of the Web to an extent which has never been witnessed before. Such popularity puts forward issue of trust to the participants of Social Networks. Collaborative Filtering Recommenders have been among many systems which have begun taking full advantage of Social Trust phenomena for generating more accurate predictions. For analyzing the evolut...

This article describes the development of a valid and reliable instrument to measure different dimensions of public trust in health care in the Netherlands. This instrument is needed because the concept was not well developed, or operationalized in earlier research. The new instrument will be used in a research project to monitor trust and to predict behaviour of people such as consulting "alte...

introduction social trust is an important issue in development matter. it is a new mater and concept in development in general and rural development in particular. dimensions of social trust are the most important purpose for bi-lateral and multi-lateral behaviors. people trust to each other to make relation and through this way they learnt that without participation and cooperation they cannot...

This paper positions trust and cooperation in the context of environmental management in Lebanon. Previous studies indicated increasing environmental problems in this area. The effectiveness of the Lebanese government to address these challenges has been reported to be constrained by large varieties of factors. While ‘trust’ and ‘cooperation’ are referred to in literature, it is not systematica...

End-to-end encryption on social networks is the new vogue. New platforms, however, still face the same old problem: trust. We need new solutions. In a world with capable nation states, criminal gangs, hacktivists and everyone in between seeking to take advantage of the connected world, how do users stay safe? Centralised trust systems like certificate authorities ask us to put all of our trust ...

BACKGROUND Incidents in health care happen every now and then. Incidents are often extensively covered by the news media. In this study, we investigated the impact of an incident in a Dutch hospital on public trust in health care in the population living in the vicinity of where the incident took place and in the national population. News media coverage of the incident started in Fall 2008. M...