Provenance, ie, the origin or source of something, is becoming an important concern, since it
offers the means to verify data products, to infer their quality, to analyse the processes that …

This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web,
people and software agents have to interact with" strangers". This makes trust a crucial factor …

Purpose In the buyer-supplier relationship of a high-technology enterprise, the concepts of
trust and risk are closely intertwined. Entering into a buyer-supplier relationship inherently …

Purpose Trust entails the assumption of risk by the trustor to the extent that the trustee may
act in a manner unaligned with the trustor's interests. Before a strategic alliance is formed …

Agile software development is being adopted in distributed environment to reduce cost and
to increase scalability of software projects. With agile development teams working in …

Effective decision making in complex dynamic situations calls for designing a fusion-based
human-machine information system requiring gathering and fusing a large amount of …

As web-based social network allows anyone to post the content without any restriction, the
trustworthiness of the content creator plays an important role before using the content. An …

Social ecosystems are growing across the web and social trust networks formed within these
systems create an extraordinary test-bed to study relation dependant notions such as trust …

In recent years, agile methods have become more popular in the software industry. Agile
methods are a new approach compared to plan‐driven approaches. One of the most …

Transparency is key to enhancing users' trust by enabling their judgment on the outcomes
and consequences of a system's operations. This paper presents the transparency …