Objective Social business is a sub-category of electronic business that seeks social, innovative and cooperative approaches within online markets and also uses social media to attract social partnership and cooperation of such network users to support online purchasing and services. Trust is considered as an effective factor leading to successful social business. Because of the growing populari...

Trust issue is developing into an important topic as the Internet becomes increasingly ubiquitous within everyday life. Although a lot of studies focus on salient factors that persuade consumer trust towards online vendors, few studies address the issue that online trust could be affected by consumers using cognitive information processes or simple cues to build their trust toward online vendor...

In this paper, we propose a facilitator which finds capable and trustworthy partners on behalf of client users, which helps users form and maintain e-partnerships for electronic commerce and electronic collaboration. Unlike existing capability-based facilitators or matchmakers, the facilitator collects and maintains private “wordof-mouth” trust information as well as capabilities from each user...

Recently, Trust has been recognized as an important factor for Grid computing security. In this paper, we propose a trust model in Grid system. It consists of Application Domain (AD), Client Domain (CD), Resource Domain (RD), and Trust Manager (TM). TM controls the relationship between RD and CD depending on the trust level value of each client and classification of each resource. Performance c...

Trust is a useful model for the interactions of Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) in Vehicular Cyber-Physical System (VCPS). Given a dynamic nature in transportation, traditional static trust models cannot effectively create the trust relationship among moving vehicles, and cannot handle quickly and dynamically the frequent vehicular interactions in a network topology. A novel trust model of VAN...

the present study aimed identifies factors affecting the development and use of electronic services in the tourism industry. population of the study of those tourists who have traveled in april 2013 in the city of ardabil. the population sample of 384 randomly selected. to gather data, researchers used a combination of questionnaires and questionnaire containing 51 questions was designed. the v...

ecrm (electronic customer relationship management) systems focus on using the web-site as the main interaction channel for businesses to simulate an old fashioned one-to-one direct relationship—high touch—with customers. the purpose of this paper is to propose a model for the relationship between ecrm and e-loyalty by conceptualizing that e-loyalty is influenced by e-satisfaction and e-trus...