Trust and Reputation Systems
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Vehicle platooning is a well-known technique utilized in intelligent and connected vehicles, where a platoon head is responsible to safely lead and guide a group of user vehicles. Platoon head selection can be optimized for various... more
The advent of socio-technical, cyber-physical and artificial intelligence systems has broadened the scope of requirements engineering, which must now deal with new classes of requirements, concerning ethics, privacy and trust. This brings... more
ABSTRACT Risk and Reputation in the Fashion and Luxury Sectors
"Imagine a world without trust. Without trust even the simplest actions in our lifeworld would hardly ever happen: We would never enter a taxi, never pay with coin or believe in what our doctor says. We would neither know when and where... more
Exploring the convergence of blockchain, systems design, new organizational design, cryptoeconomics, exponential organizations and the nature of the firm.
Research has revealed service industries’ benefits from customer trust including positive effects on commitment, loyalty, sales effectiveness, and collaborative, cooperative, and successful exchange relationships. Yet, despite the... more
Many historians prefer to take mercantile trust as a given, particularly when it comes to networks based on religious affiliation, ethnicity and kin ties.1 Too often, trust is taken as an inherent-indeed, defining-quality of a trading... more
What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policymaking? This article begins to answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the extant research investigating policy crowdsourcing,... more
Il contributo affronta il tema della Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR) sotto il particolare profilo della reputazione, inquadrandolo come vero e proprio “sistema reputazionale”. Dopo aver ripercorso l’evoluzione dei sistemi... more
A poco più di un anno dai risultati della Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca relativa al periodo 2011-2014, iniziano ad essere pubblicate le prime decisioni in cui il sistema reputazione applicato alla ricerca universitaria, vale a... more
With the extensive use of rating systems in the web, and their significance in decision making process by users, the need for more accurate aggregation methods has emerged. The Naïve aggregation method, using the simple mean, is not... more
"Computational trust modeling is a research field with a fast growing development since the last decade, mainly in the scientific area of distributed artificial intelligence and multi-agent systems, and its potential applicability spreads... more
What are the similarities and differences between crowdsourcing and sharing economy? What factors influence their use in developing countries? In light of recent developments in the use of IT-mediated technologies, such as crowdsourcing... more
The article is devoted to the analysis of the use of blockchain technology for self-organization of network communities. Network communities are characterized by the key role of trust in personal interactions, the need for repeated... more
This thesis introduced two novel reputation models to generate accurate item reputation scores using ratings data and the statistics of the dataset. It also presented an innovative method that incorporates reputation awareness in... more
The paper introduces the semiotic definitions of the concepts of textual enunciation, resonance, and reputation, applies them to the analysis of the evolution of the cultural role plaid by Edmondo De Amicis’s novel Heart in both the past... more
Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) have lots of applications. Due to the features of open medium, absence of infrastructure, dynamic changing network topology, cooperative algorithms, lack of centralized monitoring and management point,... more
—VANETs (Vehicular Ad hoc Networks) são redes de comunicação veiculares em que os participantes não dependem necessariamente de uma infraestrutura de pontos de acesso central para se conectarem. Nos projetos de VANETs atualmente em fase... more
There are twelve theses on the challenges that individuals face in the digital environment. The focus is on the protection of their legitimate interests that are under threat of organized crime.
Punishment promotes contributions to public goods, but recent evidence suggests that its effectiveness varies across societies. Prior theorizing suggests that cross-societal differences in trust play a key role in determining the... more
We seek to develop a better understanding of interpersonal trust by bridging the gap between two heretofore distinct paradigms of trust. One paradigm views trust in terms of two dimensions: cognition- and affect-based. The other paradigm... more
The Internet has caused a revolution in trading. Especially cheap items are now easy to buy and sell on the Internet. As a consequence, sellers nowadays offer a wide range of products on the web, creating an abundance of choice for... more
We provide theoretical and empirical analysis of a selling mechanism used by an Internet web-site that combines important features of auctions and gambling. This is the first analysis of such a selling mechanism, which provides insights... more
Trust is a construct of paramount importance in society. Accordingly, computational trust is evolving fast in order to allow trust in artificial societies. Despite the advances in this research field, most computational trust approaches... more
In this paper, we provide a semantic foundation for trust-related concepts in the light of trust management. We extend our previous work, the Reference Ontology of Trust, to clarify and provide a deeper account of some building blocks of... more
Peer-to-Peer networks are very popular these days due to their use in data and resource sharing. Trust and reputation of a peer not only make it easy to take a decision to ask for resource from the trustworthy node but also provide a way... more
Privacy is of crucial importance in order for agent-based e-commerce applications to be of broad use. Privacy can be enhanced minimizing data identifiability, i.e., the degree by which personal information can be directly attributed to a... more
Failure detection is a crucial service for dependable distributed systems. Traditional failure detector implementations usually target homogeneous and static configurations, as their performance relies heavily on the connectivity of each... more