The increasing reliance on information gathered from the web and other internet technologies raise the issue of trust. Through the development of semantic Web, One major difficulty is that, by its very nature, the semantic web is a large, uncensored system to which anyone may contribute. This raises the question of how much credence to give each resource. Each user knows the trustworthiness of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether political mistrust in the Riksdag (the national parliament in Sweden) is an independent characteristic of cannabis smokers, or whether it reflects low confidence in people in general, and therefore low social capital. METHOD The 2004 public health survey in Skåne is a cross-sectional postal questionnaire study answered by 27,757 respondents aged 18-80 with a 5...

Trust management is an extensively investigated topic. A lot of trust models and systems have been proposed in the literature. However, a universally agreed trust model is rarely seen due to the fact that trust is essentially subjective and different people may have different views on it. We focus on the personalization of trust in order to catch this subjective nature of trust. We propose a mu...

Using panel data method, this study examines the effects of different dimensions of social capital on innovation at the societal level across 21 countries (19 Asian countries plus Russia and Egypt) for the period 1995-2011. Dimensions of social capital that have been considered in this study include generalized trust, trust toward friends, institutional trust, civic participation, and norms of ...

Although taste and trust are concepts on clearly distinct ontological levels, they are strongly interrelated in several contexts. For instance, when assessing trust, e.g. through a trust network, it is important to understand the role that personal taste plays in order to correctly interpret potential value dependent trust recommendations and conclusions, in order to provide a sound basis for d...

This paper proposes a time domain based trust model (TD-Trust) in P2P networks. In this model, time domain analysis is built on the processes of calculating direct and recommendation trust respectively on the basis of DHT mechanism. By tracing the behavior trend of peers, this model enables system to monitor the states of peers in the view of oscillation and malice continuity so that unsteady a...