This work examines the interplay of inter-personal and inter-organizational trust, two distinct
but related concepts, through a theoretic inter-organizational trust-based security model for a …

Artificial societies—distributed systems of autonomous agents—are becoming increasingly
important in open distributed environments, especially in e‐commerce. Agents require trust …

In the real world as in the virtual one, trust is a fundamental concept. Without it, humans can
neither act nor interact. So unsurprisingly, this concept received in the last years a growing …

This book is an attempt to bring closer the greater vision of the development of Social
Informatics. Social Informatics can be defined as a discipline of informatics that studies how …

During the past thirty years, the world of computing has evolved from large centralised
computing centres to an increasingly distributed computing environment, where computation …

The scientific research in the area of computational trust and reputation mechanisms for
virtual societies is a recent discipline oriented to increase the reliability and performance of …

This special issue is the result of the workshop Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent
Societies, held in Bologna on July 15, 2002 as part of the Autonomous Agents and Multi …

In open environments, agents depend on reputation and trust mechanisms to evaluate the
behavior of potential partners. The scientific research in this field has considerably …

All trust management systems must take into account the possibility of error: of misplaced
trust. Therefore, regardless of whether it uses reputation or not, is centralized or distributed …