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On Deciding to Trust

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Trust Management (iTrust 2005)

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Participating in electronic markets and conducting business online inadvertedly involves the decision to trust other participants. In this paper we consider trust as a concept that self-interested agents populating an electronic marketplace can use to take decisions on who they are going to transact with. We are interested in looking at the effects that trust and its attributes as well as trust dispositions have on individual agents and the electronic market as a whole. A market scenario is presented which was used to build a simulation program and then run a series of experiments.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK

    Michael Michalakopoulos & Maria Fasli

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  1. Department of Telematics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), N-7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Peter Herrmann

  2. INRIA-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, 78153, Le Chesnay, France

    Valérie Issarny

  3. Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HungHom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Simon Shiu

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Michalakopoulos, M., Fasli, M. (2005). On Deciding to Trust. In: Herrmann, P., Issarny, V., Shiu, S. (eds) Trust Management. iTrust 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3477. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11429760_5

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