In this study the researchers identify different perceived website quality dimensions. They empirically explore the influence of perceived Website quality dimensions (content, design, use and interactivity, privacy, security and customization) on E-trust: 247 students, instructors, and employees passengers from 12 nationalities in Jordanian, Arabian and American universities were the respondent...

Website publishers can derive enormous performance benefits and cost savings by directing traffic to their sites through content distribution networks (CDNs). However, publishers who use CDNs today must trust their CDN not to modify the site’s JavaScript, CSS, images or other media en route to end users. A CDN that violates this trust could inject ads into websites, downsample media to save ban...

The predominant usage of the Internet for content retrieval has lead to a new communication paradigm called information-centric networking (ICN). In this paradigm, the main concern is to fetch content from the network without the explicit knowledge where the content, or its copy, is currently located. Although the migration to the ICN paradigm is already taking place, the underlying naming syst...

Collaborative functionality is increasingly prevalent in web applications. Such functionality permits individuals to add – and sometimes modify – web content, often with minimal barriers-to-entry. Ideally, large bodies of knowledge can be amassed and shared in this manner. However, such software also provide a medium for nefarious persons to operate. By determining the extent to which participa...

As social media grow in popularity, more and more people produce user-generated content (UGC) in various types of social media. Thus, practitioners are interested in how to support people’s motivation to produce UGC. While previous literature has examined various factors influencing people’s motivation to produce UGC, few studies have examined the role of other participants as well as the socia...

Most of the current content of the Web is understandable only to humans. The Semantic Web envisions solving this problem by adding structure and semantic information to the content of Webpages, enabling machines to understand and reason about information on the web in a generalized manner. This paper presents some important issues that need to be resolved if the vision of the global Semantic We...

Collaborative ratings of forum posts have been successfully applied in order to infer the reputations of forum users. Famous websites such as Slashdot or Stack Exchange allow their users to score messages in order to evaluate their content. These scores can be aggregated for each user in order to compute a reputation value in the forum. However, explicit rating functionalities are rarely used i...

File sharing peer-to-peer networks have become quite popular of late as a new paradigm for information exchange among large number of users in the Internet. However, these networks suffer from several problems such as fake content distribution, free riding, whitewashing, poor search scalability, lack of a robust trust model and absence of user privacy protection mechanism. In this paper, a secu...

Currently, combined community/content environments gain increasing importance in different areas of life, ranging from private to educational to corporate contexts. However, since they are still a novel achievement it is not so clear how they should be organized in order of their successful operation. For gaining a deeper insight in what makes such an environment work, the authors systematicall...