The pervasive environment implies a massive increase in the scale of systems, the heterogeneity of devices and diversity in services available, making the complex task of centrally managing the environment unfeasible. The scope and role of trusted third parties in facilitating trust is also reduced because of the high number of bilateral trust relationships, which cannot be predefined and manag...

The advent of peer-to-peer accommodation sharing platforms, like Airbnb, has ushered in a new era in travel worldwide. However, to ensure sustainability in the long term, information asymmetry inherent to such platforms has to be tackled. Currently, accommodation sharing platforms offer a multitude of in-built trust-enhancing cues that may reduce information asymmetry, signal trust and aid pote...

Autonomous robots such as self-driving cars are already able to make decisions that have ethical consequences. As such machines make increasingly complex and important decisions, we will need to know that their decisions are trustworthy and ethically justified. Hence we will need them to be able to explain the reasons for these decisions: ethical decision-making requires that decisions be expla...

While an increasing number of trust studies examine technological artifacts as trust recipients, there is still a lack of basic understanding of how technology trust relates to traditional trust and its role within the broader nomological net articulated in trust research. This paper suggests that technology trust is distinct from interpersonal trust (i.e., trust in humans) due to the different...

BACKGROUND This paper explores the nature and reasoning for (dis)trust in Australian public and private hospitals. Patient trust increases uptake of, engagement with and optimal outcomes from healthcare services and is therefore central to health practice, policy and planning. METHODS A qualitative study in South Australia, including 36 in-depth interviews (18 from public and 18 from private ...

Trust is one of the most important factors for participants’ decision-making in Online Social Networks (OSNs). The trust network from a source to a target without any prior interaction contains some important intermediate participants, the trust relations between the participants, and the social context, each of which has an important influence on trust evaluation. Thus, before performing any t...

in the recent decade, given the importance of customer in online environment, creating loyalty has been proposed as an essential challenge for electronic stores. the present study focuses on the role of trust in order to facilitate the process of making e-customers loyal. to this end, a model was proposed that especially focuses on individual factors ( perceived usefulness, perceived ease of us...

This paper analyses the simplicity of the trust model adopted by the Shibboleth infrastructure and describes an enhanced distributed trust model and authorisation decision making capability that can be implemented by using X.509 attribute certificates and a Privilege Management Infrastructure such as PERMIS. Several different combinatorial approaches can be taken, depending upon the trust model...

Trust is a mechanism for managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely studied in multiagent systems and related fields such as the semantic web. Managing information about trust involves inference with uncertain information, decision making, and dealing with co...

Project Description Cooperation is of fundamental importance in distributed systems and can, from a security point of view, be divided into two types according to whether or not the cooperating parties trust each other. Trust can generally be assumed when entities belonging to the same organization need to cooperate; typical scenarios are cooperative work and workflow systems. On the other hand...