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The Fuzzy and Dynamic Nature of Trust

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Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business (TrustBus 2005)

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Trust is one of the most fuzzy, dynamic and complex concepts in both social and business relationships. The difficulty in measuring Trust and predicting Trustworthiness in service-oriented network environments leads to many questions. These include issues such as how to measure the willingness and capability of individuals in the Trust dynamic and how to assign a concrete level of Trust to an individual or Agent. In this paper, we analyze the fuzzy, dynamic and complex nature of Trust.

The dynamic nature of Trust creates the biggest challenge in measuring Trust and predicting Trustworthiness. In order to develop a Trustworthiness Measure and Prediction Method, we first need to understand what we can actually measure in a Trust Relationship.

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  1. Centre for Extended Enterprise and Business Intelligence, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia

    Elizabeth Chang, Patricia Thomson & Farookh Hussain

  2. Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

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  1. Dept. of Technology Education and Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, 150 Androutsou St., GR-18532, Pireaus, Greece

    Sokratis Katsikas

  2. Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruña, Spain

    Javier López

  3. University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, Regensburg, Germany

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Chang, E., Thomson, P., Dillon, T., Hussain, F. (2005). The Fuzzy and Dynamic Nature of Trust. In: Katsikas, S., López, J., Pernul, G. (eds) Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business. TrustBus 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3592. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11537878_17

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