Understanding consumer behavior is of vital importance to consumer oriented e-business models today. In this paper we report on a study into the relationships between consumer per...
Online feedback-based rating systems are gaining popularity. Dealing with collaborative unfair ratings in such systems has been recognized as an important but difficult problem. T...
Yafei Yang, Yan Lindsay Sun, Steven Kay, Qing Yang
Fault tolerant distributed protocols typically utilize a homogeneous fault model, either fail-crash or fail-Byzantine, where all processors are assumed to fail in the same manner....
A scalable approach to trust negotiation is required in Web service environments that have large and dynamic requester populations. We introduce Trust-Serv, a model-driven trust n...
Recent compliance regulations are intended to foster and restore human trust in digital information records and, more broadly, in our businesses, hospitals, and educational enterpr...