Trust networks have great potential for improving the effectiveness of email filtering and many other processes concerned with the validity of identity and content. To explore this potential, we propose the Konfidi system. Konfidi uses PGP connections to determine authenticity, and topical trust connections described in RDF to compute inferred trust values. Between yourself and some person X wh...

In this paper we empirically investigate the concept of trust using organizational work practices in three groups: within the team, between teams and when interacting with technology. This study adopts Repertory Grid methodology as an interview based technique to elicit important constructs of trust to team members working in two organizations within the energy distribution industry. Thirteen k...

Trust is a necessary concept to realize the Semantic Web. But how can we build a “Web of Trust”? We first argue that a small “Web of Trust” for each community is very essential to realize a huge “Web of Trust.” Then, we focus on an academic community as a microcosm of a “Web of Trust” and show a web mining approach to generate a social network automatically. Each edge is added using the number ...

Success of an e-business rests on many factors. One of the important contributors is trust. Trust is something that an e-businessmust strive to achieveover a period of time. Acquiring customer trust depends on many things that an e-business controls.However, customer’s trust as such is not under the control of the e-business. Some contributing factors for gaining customer trust are: appeal of t...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the concept of trust across organizational work practices by examining three groups: within the team, between teams and when interacting with technology. This study adopts Repertory Grid methodology as an interview based technique to elicit important constructs of trust to engineering teams working in two organizations within the energy distribution ind...

In this paper we take a fresh look at the problem of information quality for user contributed content. We assert that the traditional quality criteria for assessing the quality of geographic information are difficult to apply to Volunteered Geographic Information. The notion of informational trust is introduced and linked to the established notion of interpersonal trust. We then propose to use ...

Background The professional nurses’ activities, behaviors, and manners are classified as nursing care behaviors. Nurses spend considerable amounts of time taking care of patients and their families; however, their opinions about their caring behaviors are different from the care receivers’ views. Hence, this study aimed to elaborate the nursing care behaviors perceived by the parents of hospita...

For building trust in information services the criteria reliability, rightness/correctness, security, transparency, reputation, believability, completeness, and competence are particularly important. A comparison with four frameworks, which are used to evaluate information quality of information services outlines that trust relevant criteria can be found at the content and data security level. ...