He studies corporate rhetoric and is currently exploring how organizations rhetorically construct trust online. Abstract As e-commerce and virtual communities fundamentally change the way Americans do business and build relationships, how can people be assured of safety in unfamiliar cyber-spaces? This essay focuses on online auction eBay to understand how eBay has successfully drawn millions o...

The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be trustworthy by sharing them. Players are strangers because they do not know the identity of others and they ...

The trust building process is basic to social science. We investigate it in a laboratory setting using a novel multi-stage trust game where social gains are achieved if players trust each other in each stage. And in each stage, players have an opportunity to appropriate these gains or be trustworthy by sharing them. Players are strangers because they do not know the identity of others and they ...

In this paper we describe Turtle, a peer-to-peer architecture for safe sharing of sensitive data. The truly revolutionary aspect of Turtle rests in its novel way of dealing with trust issues: while existing peer-to-peer architectures with similar aims attempt to build trust relationships on top of the basic, trust-agnostic, peer-topeer overlay, Turtle takes the opposite approach, and builds its...

Trust is a basic soft-security condition influencing interactive and cooperative behaviors in online communities. Several systems and models have been proposed to enforce and investigate the role of trust in the process of favoring successful cooperations while minimizing selfishness and failure. However, the analysis of their effectiveness and efficiency is a challenging issue. This paper prov...

A novel implementation of aggressive space mapping (ASM) for the automatic layout synthesis of planar metamaterial structures is outlined in this article. Specifically, we employ a model-trust region optimisation approach to significantly reduce the computational burden associated with the direct optimisation of highfidelity models. A Visual Basic for application (VBA) link to a commercial full...

In this paper we solve large scale ill-posed problems, particularly the image restoration problem in atmospheric imaging sciences, by a trust region-CG algorithm. Image restoration involves the removal or minimization of degradation (blur, clutter, noise, etc.) in an image using a priori knowledge about the degradation phenomena. Our basic technique is the so-called trust region method, while t...

In this paper we solve large scale ill-posed problems, particularly the image restoration problem in atmospheric imaging sciences , by a trust region-cg algorithm. Image restoration involves the removal or minimization of degradation (blur, clutter, noise, etc.) in an image using a priori knowledge about the degradation phenomena. Our basic technique is the so-called trust region method, while ...

Mutual trust is essential in performing economical transactions. In modern internet-based businesses, however, traditional trust gaining mechanisms cannot be used and new ways to build trust between e-business partners have to be found. In consequence, a lot of models describing trust and the mechanisms to build it were developed. Unfortunately, most of these models neither provide the right fo...

In the trust-structure model of trust management, principals specify their trusting relationships with other principals in terms of trust policies. In their paper on trust structures, Carbone et al. present a language for such policies, and provide a suitable denotational semantics. The semantics ensures that for any collection of trust policies, there is always a unique global trust-state, com...