The Requirements Engineering (RE) community recognizes the importance of trust proposing several approaches to model and analyze trust requirements. However, such approaches mainly focus on trust as social relations without relating them to the requirements of the system’s components. We propose a belief-based trust approach based on an extended version of Secure Tropos, where social relations ...

The certainty trust relationship of network node behavior has been presented based on graph theory, and a measurement method of trusted-degree is proposed. Because of the uncertainty of trust relationship, this paper has put forward the random trusted-order and firstly introduces the construction of trust relations space (TRS) based on trusted order. Based on all those above, the paper describe...

An increased exchange of (scientific) information across organizations and disciplines is one of the long-term goals of the semantic web. In any such exchange of information, it is not difficult to identify one or more (scientific) communities responsible for the measurement, gathering and processing of scientific information. More challenging, however, is to understand the trust relations betw...

This research investigated the importance, development, influences and benefits of interorganisational trust in business-to-business e-commerce. Using a case study approach, seven informants from four Tasmania-based organisations were interviewed. The informants considered trading partner trust extremely important and a prerequisite to electronic and traditional trading relationships. The most ...

Trust relationships between user pairs play a vital role in making decisions for social network users. In reality, available explicit trust relations are often extremely sparse, therefore, inferring unknown trust relations attracts increasing attention in recent years. In this paper, a new approach originating from machine learning is proposed to predict trust relationships in social networks b...