Abstract. Communication technologies, such as e-mail, instant messaging, discussion forums, blogs, and newsgroups connect people together, forming virtual communities. This concept...
Florian Skopik, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
At any given time, the stability of a community depends on the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk takin...
The scientific research in the area of computational mechanisms for trust and reputation in virtual societies is a recent discipline oriented to increase the reliability and perfor...
Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...