This article considers the impact of digital technologies on the interpersonal and institutional
logics of trust production. It introduces the new theoretical concept of technology-mediated …

Recommendation technologies and trust metrics constitute the two pillars of trust-enhanced
recommender systems. We discuss and illustrate the basic trust concepts such as trust and …

Prior literature focuses on trust, while largely ignoring distrust, partly because of the
assumption that an Information Technology (IT) design that builds trust in the IT will also …

Social media greatly enables people to participate in online activities and shatters the
barrier for online users to create and share information at any place at any time. However …

Trust plays an important role in hel** online users collect reliable information, and has
attracted increasing attention in recent years. We learn from social sciences that, as the …

Trust and distrust networks are usually extremely sparse and the vast majority of the existing
algorithms for trust/distrust prediction suffer from the data sparsity problem. In this paper …

This book describes research performed in the context of trust/distrust propagation and
aggregation, and their use in recommender systems. This is a hot research topic with …

Successful leadership establishes relationships with followers based on trust. This study
examines leadership capabilities that build trustworthiness and untrustworthiness. We …

Reputation systems provide a form of social control and reveal behaviour patterns in the
uncertain and risk-laden environment of the open Internet. However, proposed reputation …

The open data ventures can be summarized in a way that companies are reluctant to share
their data with anyone, whereas governments open their data for citizens, institutions, and …