The growth in knowledge sharing enabled by the (Semantic) Web has made trust an
increasingly critical issue. Based on explicit inter-agent trust relations, a trust network …

Trust plays an important role in a Web-based social network. Given the open and dynamic
nature of such an online virtual community, trust evaluation relies on transitive relationships …

It is argued that the building of trust in electronic commerce depends only partly on technical
security, and the knowledge of security gaps and ways of closing them. It is not only a …

This book provides an introduction, discussion, and formal-based modelling of trust theory
and its applications in agent-based systems This book gives an accessible explanation of …

The Internet is now being used for commercial, social and educational interactions, which
previously relied on direct face-to-face contact in order to establish trust relationships. Thus …

Discusses the notion of trust as it relates to information science and technology, specifically
user interfaces, autonomous agents, and information systems. Highlights include theoretical …

Trust-" reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing"-is pervasive in
social systems. We constantly apply it in interactions between people, organizations …

The growth of Web-based social networking and the properties of those networks have
created great potential for producing intelligent software that integrates a user's social …

As it was been written in the call of the original workshop “In recent research on electronic
commerce” trust has been recognized as one of the key factors for successful electronic …

Lack of trust is one of the most frequently cited reasons for consumers not purchasing from
Internet vendors. During the last four years a number of empirical studies have investigated …