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Formalizing Trust Based on Usage Behaviours for Mobile Applications

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A mobile application is a software package that can be installed and executed on a mobile device. Which mobile application is more trustworthy for a user to purchase, download, install, consume or recommend becomes a crucial issue that impacts its final success. This paper proposes a computational trust model based on users’ behaviors, which assists the evaluation and management of the mobile application’s trust with user friendliness. We achieve our model through formalizing a trust behavior construct achieved from a user survey experiment though principle component analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis and confirmatory factor analysis. It is indicated that a user’s trust behavior is a multidimensional construct composed of three main aspects: using behavior, reflection behavior, and correlation behavior. Particularly, we simulate a set of test data to visualize the validity of the formalization.

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  1. Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland

    Zheng Yan

  2. Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China

    Rong Yan

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  1. Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology, GPO Box 2434, QLD 4001, Brisbane, Australia

    Juan González Nieto

  2. Department of Software Engineering and Programming Languages, Institute of ComputerScience, University of Augsburg, 86135, Augsburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Reif

  3. School of Information Science and Engineering, Central South University, 410083, Changsha, Hunan Province, P. R. China

    Guojun Wang

  4. School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Jadwiga Indulska

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Yan, Z., Yan, R. (2009). Formalizing Trust Based on Usage Behaviours for Mobile Applications. In: González Nieto, J., Reif, W., Wang, G., Indulska, J. (eds) Autonomic and Trusted Computing. ATC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5586. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02704-8_15

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