The increasing reliance on information gathered from the Web and other Internet technologies (P2P networks, e-mails, blogs, wikis, etc.) raises the issue of trust. Trust policies are needed to filter out untrustworthy information. This filtering task can be leveraged by the increasing availability of Semantic Web metadata that describes the information retrieved. It is necessary, however, to ad...

In order to better model agent-agent interaction, a robust model for trust is necessary. Many computational trust models have been created in the past, but during the course of research, I’ve found none that model every facet of trust appropriately. In order to rectify this, I’ve devised a model based off of prior work in the field, and some ideas gleaned from sociology and neurobiology. The co...

Mobile Agents (MA) are software programs that live in computer networks, performing their computations and moving from host to host as necessary to fulfill user goals. MA technology has gained popularity in the world of computing for various applications, but securing MAs, as they move from one machine to the other, has been the challenge that hinders full adoption of this technology by organiz...

The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Sport Education (SE) pedagogical models share several objectives and pedagogical processes. Despite this seemingly uncanny relationship, few studies have examined the efficacy of a hybrid TGfU/SE pedagogical model, particularly how a teacher's utilization of such a model impacts on student motivation. The purpose of the current study was to invest...

current research examines the impact of perceived justice (including distributive justice, procedural justice and interactional justice) on perceived service quality and customer behavioral intentions (including word of mouth, trust and revisit intention).statistical sample comprises 120 customers of iran insurance company in shiraz holding automobile insurance and have record of visiting the c...

The growth in knowledge sharing enabled by the (Semantic) Web has made trust an increasingly critical issue. Based on explicit inter-agent trust relations, a trust network emerges on the (Semantic) Web in the knowledge sharing context. The concept of a trust network and its application to knowledge sharing have received recent attention but neither their structural properties (e.g. dynamics, co...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly expanding and becoming an integral part daily life, increasing the potential for security threats such as malware or cyberattacks. Many embedded systems (ESs), responsible handling sensitive data facilitating secure online activities, must adhere to stringent standards. For instance, payment processors employ security-critical components distinct chips, m...