This paper proposes a new e-procurement model for a large number of buyers and sellers interacting via the Internet. The goal of e-procurement is to create a satisfactory match bet...
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
The term online reputation addresses trust relationships amongst agents in dynamic open systems. These can appear as ratings, recommendations, referrals and feedback. Several repu...
In nowadays wireless networks, mobile users frequently access Internet services that are often based on information concerning the application context and service status. In prese...
Getting agents in the Internet, and in networks in general, to invest in and deploy security features and protocols is a challenge, in particular because of economic reasons arisi...