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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,004 Views
18 Pages

2 April 2020

In order to expand on the scope of research on partnership governance, this study explored the impact of relationship trust, stakeholder environmental awareness, and regenerative innovation on environmental performance. The study participants were pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,321 Views
42 Pages

Socially Grounded IoT Protocol for Reliable Computer Vision in Industrial Applications

  • Gokulnath Chidambaram,
  • Shreyanka Subbarayappa and
  • Sai Baba Magapu

27 January 2026

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) enables collaborative service provisioning among interconnected devices by leveraging socially inspired trust relationships. This paper proposes a socially driven SIoT protocol for trust-aware service selection, e...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,381 Views
23 Pages

24 February 2026

This study examines how consumers’ perceptions of corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance are statistically associated with sustainable relational outcomes within a structured cognitive and relational framework. Drawin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
542 Views
25 Pages

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems has intensified the need for distributed intelligence mechanisms that reduce direct raw-data exposure while remaining resilient to adversarial manipulation. Federated learning (FL) addresses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Privacy Protection in Blockchain Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,818 Views
17 Pages

The changes in distribution channels of the crop protection industry are accelerating the influence of crop protection retailers on farmers’ product purchase decisions. This study aims to identify the critical competitive factors; ‘produc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development and CSR – Perfect Match?)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,272 Views
19 Pages

Optimization of PBFT Algorithm Based on QoS-Aware Trust Service Evaluation

  • Wei Liu,
  • Xuhao Zhang,
  • Wenlong Feng,
  • Mengxing Huang and
  • Yun Xu

17 June 2022

In service-transaction scenarios, blockchain technology is widely used as an effective tool for establishing trust between service providers and consumers. The consensus algorithm is the core technology of blockchain. However, existing consensus algo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,133 Views
28 Pages

Social media platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) increasingly shape attention formation, market visibility, and value signaling in electronic commerce, particularly in emerging digital asset markets such as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Prior work s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,796 Views
16 Pages

Adolescents and Trust in Online Social Interactions: A Qualitative Exploratory Study

  • Elisa Colì,
  • Marinella Paciello,
  • Ernestina Lamponi,
  • Rubina Calella and
  • Rino Falcone

18 August 2023

Social media have become increasingly embedded in adolescents’ daily lives. Although these contexts have been widely studied, how trust in online relationships is built among adolescents is still an unexplored issue. By adopting the theoretical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,608 Views
19 Pages

Sustainable Seafood Consumption in Action: Relevant Behaviors and their Predictors

  • Isabel Richter,
  • John Thøgersen and
  • Christian A. Klöckner

12 December 2017

Within the discussion around sustainable diets, seafood consumption is still a relatively neglected field. This article discusses relevant behaviours consumers can perform to consume seafood sustainably. The predictive power of intention, descriptive...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Food Innovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,668 Views
20 Pages

TAFL-UWSN: A Trust-Aware Federated Learning Framework for Securing Underwater Sensor Networks

  • Raja Waseem Anwar,
  • Mohammad Abrar,
  • Abdu Salam and
  • Faizan Ullah

19 March 2026

Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) are pivotal for environmental monitoring, surveillance, and marine data collection. However, their open and largely unattended operational settings, constrained communication capabilities, limited energy re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,834 Views
19 Pages

Trust-Aware Reflective Control for Fault-Resilient Dynamic Task Response in Human–Swarm Cooperation

  • Yibei Guo,
  • Yijiang Pang,
  • Joseph Lyons,
  • Michael Lewis and ,
  • Katia Sycara and
  • Rui Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 March 2024

Due to the complexity of real-world deployments, a robot swarm is required to dynamically respond to tasks such as tracking multiple vehicles and continuously searching for victims. Frequent task assignments eliminate the need for system calibration...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
4,672 Views
27 Pages

Bio-Inspired Dynamic Trust and Congestion-Aware Zone-Based Secured Internet of Drone Things (SIoDT)

  • Yousif Sufyan Jghef,
  • Mohammed Jasim Mohammed Jasim,
  • Hayder M. A. Ghanimi,
  • Abeer D. Algarni and ,
  • Naglaa F. Soliman,
  • Walid El-Shafai,
  • Subhi R. M. Zeebaree,
  • Ahmed Alkhayyat,
  • Ali S. Abosinnee and
  • Fatima Hashim Abbas
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

2 November 2022

The Internet of Drone Things (IoDT) is a trending research area where drones are used to gather information from ground networks. In order to overcome the drawbacks of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), such as congestion issues, security issues, and en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
662 Views
20 Pages

14 July 2026

The Internet of Things (IoT) has increased the cyber-attack surface by bringing together a variety of different devices, sensors, and services in critical digital infrastructure. Federated learning (FL) is a solution that enables local devices to tra...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,843 Views
23 Pages

Enhancing Human–Machine Collaboration: A Trust-Aware Trajectory Planning Framework for Assistive Aerial Teleoperation

  • Qianzheng Zhuang,
  • Kangjie Huang,
  • Xiaoran Jin,
  • Pengfei Li and ,
  • Yunbo Zhao and
  • Yu Kang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2025

Human–machine collaboration in assistive aerial teleoperation is frequently compromised by trust imbalances, which arise from the vehicle’s complex dynamics and the operator’s constrained perceptual feedback. We introduce a novel fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in AI-Powered Human–Machine-Augmented Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,623 Views
20 Pages

15 January 2022

In wireless ad hoc networks, security and communication challenges are frequently addressed by deploying a trust mechanism. A number of approaches for evaluating trust of ad hoc network nodes have been proposed, including the one that uses neural net...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,278 Views
16 Pages

A Trust-Based Secure Neuro Fuzzy Clustering Technique for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

  • Alagan Ramasamy Rajeswari,
  • Wen-Cheng Lai,
  • C. Kavitha,
  • Prabhu Kavin Balasubramanian and
  • S. R. Srividhya

A MANET consists of a group of mobile nodes. In a MANET, scalability and mobility have a greater influence on routing performance. The clustering technique plays a vital role in enhancing the routing mechanism and improving the network lifetime of a...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
579 Views
22 Pages

22 August 2026

Intelligent sensor networks are increasingly deployed in security-critical environments, where confidential sensing data may be forwarded through low-security relay sensors that are vulnerable to compromise, misuse, or internal eavesdropping. This pa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensors for Security and Attack Detection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,870 Views
29 Pages

20 May 2022

Online social networks are vital environments for information sharing and user interactivity. To help users of online social services to build, expand, and maintain their friend networks or webs of trust, trust management systems have been deployed a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Analysis and Mining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
899 Views
27 Pages

Although the sharing of data is an important part of multicenter biomedical AI, direct data sharing is hindered by privacy laws, institutional data silos, and restrained trust and cooperation between institutions. While federated learning offers an o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Health Data Management in the Age of AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,252 Views
18 Pages

13 March 2023

Establishing service-driven IoT systems that are reliable, efficient, and stable requires building trusted IoT environments to reduce catastrophic and unforeseen damages. Hence, building trusted IoT environments is of great importance. However, we ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Cybersecurity and Computer Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,244 Views
20 Pages

23 March 2026

Edge computing is now widely used to support real-time and safety-critical IoT services. However, current edge schedulers usually optimize only performance, while security verification and trust assessment are handled as separate modules. This separa...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,740 Views
28 Pages

Safety is one concern that hinders the acceptance of ridesharing in the general public. Several studies have been conducted on the trust issue in recent years to relieve this concern. The introduction of trust in ridesharing systems provides a pragma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recommender Systems: Approaches, Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,679 Views
19 Pages

Federated learning enables privacy-preserving model training across distributed clients, yet real-world deployments face statistical, system, and behavioral heterogeneity, which degrades performance and increases vulnerability to adversarial clients....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,869 Views
33 Pages

TrustShare: Secure and Trusted Blockchain Framework for Threat Intelligence Sharing

  • Hisham Ali,
  • William J. Buchanan,
  • Jawad Ahmad,
  • Marwan Abubakar and ,
  • Muhammad Shahbaz Khan and
  • Isam Wadhaj
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

We introduce TrustShare, a novel blockchain-based framework designed to enable secure, privacy-preserving, and trust-aware cyber threat intelligence (CTI) sharing across organizational boundaries. Leveraging Hyperledger Fabric, the architecture suppo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Edge Computing for IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
32 Pages

Trust-Aware Environmental State Consensus for Smart Agriculture with TEE-Enabled Sensing and Byzantine-Resilient Blockchain Coordination

  • Lanlan Li,
  • Charles Z. Liu,
  • Kejia Huang,
  • Ruiyi Deng and ,
  • Majed Abdullah Alrowaily,
  • Mansoor Alghamdi,
  • Ibrahim S. Alkhazi and
  • Malek Alrashidi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 July 2026

This paper proposes a trust-aware environmental state consensus framework for smart agriculture that integrates TEE-enabled sensing, Byzantine-resilient aggregation, and lightweight blockchain-based state coordination under resource-constrained IoT e...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
536 Views
59 Pages

2 October 2026

Opportunistic networks acquire external communication, computation, sensing, storage, and service resources as mission requirements evolve. Prior research has developed human-mobility models, context-aware routing, trust mechanisms, and adaptive reso...

(This article belongs to the Topic Challenges and Future Trends of Wireless Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
513 Views
24 Pages

DBST-FL: Dynamic Behavioural and Semantic Trust for Robust Federated Learning in Industrial IoT

  • Ammar Alazab,
  • Abin Kumbalapalliyil Tom,
  • Tony Jan,
  • Md Whaiduzzaman and ,
  • Thien Nguyen,
  • Ansam Khraisat and
  • Ali Almazrouei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 July 2026

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for collaborative model training in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments by enabling distributed devices to learn shared models without exchanging raw data. However, existing F...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intrusion Detection for IoT Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,033 Views
13 Pages

Brand Awareness in the Context of Mistrust: The Case Study of an Employment Agency

  • Kristina Ročkutė,
  • Inga Minelgaitė,
  • Ligita Zailskaitė-Jakštė and
  • Robertas Damaševičius

5 March 2018

Brand awareness is important for a good market performance of a company. However, research on the contextual preconditions needed for the improvement of brand awareness is limited, particularly in specific service sectors such as employment agencies....

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
828 Views
23 Pages

28 June 2026

This study examines how future mathematics teachers perceive the importance of AI-related and digital competencies and their self-reported performance in these areas. The study was conducted in a Mathematics Education course in Spain with 198 Primary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Technology in Mathematics Teaching and Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
567 Views
46 Pages

27 August 2026

TA-BI (trust-aware behavioral intelligence) is a conceptual–formal observation-to-decision contract for trust-aware routing support in reactive multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs). It specifies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Technology for Wireless Communications and Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,675 Views
18 Pages

This study investigated whether three components of ethical management—awareness, operation, and practice—have a positive effect on corporate trust and relationship commitment in business-to-business (B2B) transactions. The study examined whether the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,438 Views
36 Pages

Trusted Energy-Aware Hierarchical Routing (TEAHR) for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Vikas,
  • Charu Wahi,
  • Bharat Bhushan Sagar and
  • Manisha Manjul

17 April 2025

These days, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are expanding fast and are used in many fields such as healthcare, battlefields, etc. Depending upon the type of sensor, they are transmitting a considerable amount of data in a short duration, so security...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computing and Applications for Wireless and Mobile Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,209 Views
34 Pages

Generative AI Adoption in Local Government: A PLS-SEM and fsQCA Study of Vietnamese Civil Servants

  • Phu Nguyen Duy,
  • Charles Ruangthamsing,
  • Peerasit Kamnuansilpa,
  • Grichawat Lowatcharin and
  • Prasongchai Setthasuravich

28 July 2026

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is widely considered to hold transformative potential for public administration, but its adoption in local governments remains uneven, weakly institutionalized, and shaped by informal employee experimentatio...

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  • Open Access
307 Views
46 Pages

14 September 2026

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) technologies have significantly improved the automation and monitoring of critical infrastructures such as water treatment facilities. However, the increasing interaction between human operators and cyber-physical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT: Security, Privacy and Best Practices (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,881 Views
16 Pages

26 September 2023

Organizations are encouraged to integrate sustainability into their HRM practices to enhance their attractiveness as employers to prospective employees and to motivate employees to excel, which allows them to recognize the contribution they make to s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Towards Sustainable HRM: Types, Factors, Drivers and Outcomes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,597 Views
32 Pages

5 November 2025

Current federated identity management systems lack contextual awareness of workflows across independent systems, creating security gaps and workflow integrity challenges. This article details the design and implementation of Alohomora, a distributed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,720 Views
32 Pages

Energy-Efficient and Trust-Based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Scheme for 6G-Enabled Internet of Underwater Things

  • Altaf Hussain,
  • Shuaiyong Li,
  • Tariq Hussain,
  • Razaz Waheeb Attar and ,
  • Ahmed Alhomoud,
  • Reem Alsagri and
  • Khalid Zaman
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 January 2025

This paper introduces a novel energy-efficient lightweight, void hole avoidance, localization, and trust-based scheme, termed as Energy-Efficient and Trust-based Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (EETAUV) protocol designed for 6G-enabled underwater acous...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
896 Views
18 Pages

Edge Driven Trust Aware Threat Detection for IoT Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems

  • Khulud Salem Alshudukhi,
  • Mamoona Humayun,
  • Aala Oqab Alsalem,
  • Mohammad Farhan Khan and
  • Khalid Haseeb

9 February 2026

Wireless communication and the Internet of Things (IoT) are integrated for the formulation of an emerging Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) for the interaction of vehicles and to enhance road safety. The emerging network manages the traffic flo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Edge Artificial Intelligence and Data Science for IoT-Enabled Systems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,854 Views
21 Pages

Equine-Assisted Experiential Learning: A Literature Review of Embodied Leadership Development in Organizational Behavior

  • Rubentheran Sivagurunathan,
  • Abdul Rahman bin S Senathirajah,
  • Linkesvaran Sivagurunathan,
  • Sayeeduzzafar Qazi and
  • Rasheedul Haque

29 July 2025

Background: Equine-assisted experiential learning (EAL) is an emerging approach that uses human–horse interactions to develop leadership skills through experiential methods. Purpose: This review synthesizes the literature on the role of EAL in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
643 Views
25 Pages

14 July 2026

Reliable fault diagnosis of milling machines under varying operating conditions remains challenging due to distribution shifts caused by speed variations, nonstationary dynamics, and limited labeled data in target domains. Conventional domain adaptat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bearing Fault Diagnosis Using Single Sensor Techniques and Sensor Fusion Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,038 Views
18 Pages

30 January 2024

As several studies demonstrate, good sleep quality is essential for individuals’ well-being, as a lack of restoring sleep may disrupt different physical, mental, and social dimensions of health. For this reason, there is increasing interest in...

(This article belongs to the Section Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,740 Views
18 Pages

Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely used in mental health care for screening, monitoring, and intervention. Notably, most studies of AI in mental health have been performed in Western contexts, with limited evidence from the Arab Gulf...

(This article belongs to the Section Digital Health Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,720 Views
16 Pages

27 March 2019

Task scheduling is critical for improving system performance in the distributed heterogeneous computing environment. The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) tasks scheduling problem is NP-complete and it is hard to find an optimal schedule. Due to its key i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trust Management: Key Factor of the Sustainable Organizations Embedded in Network)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,673 Views
22 Pages

13 August 2021

Vietnam tourism experienced impressive growth from 2008–2019, but it has weakened due to the impact of the pandemic up to the present. So, what should the travel companies and their partners do to overcome the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic?...

  • Article
  • Open Access
482 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2026

Hydrogen production from waste plastics is emerging as a potential low-carbon pathway that integrates waste management with energy production. This study develops an integrated socio-technical framework combining a comparative assessment of thermoche...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Low-Carbon Energy Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,660 Views
13 Pages

Mode Awareness and Automated Driving—What Is It and How Can It Be Measured?

  • Christina Kurpiers,
  • Bianca Biebl,
  • Julia Mejia Hernandez and
  • Florian Raisch

In SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Level 2, the driver has to monitor the traffic situation and system performance at all times, whereas the system assumes responsibility within a certain operational design domain in SAE Level 3. The different...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Test and Evaluation Methods for Human-Machine Interfaces of Automated Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
507 Views
29 Pages

3 July 2026

Existing solutions for resource allocation in Zero Trust (ZT) SDN networks treat security, resilience, and efficiency separately; centralised approaches violate data privacy; deep reinforcement learning (DRL) lacks trust dynamics; and federated learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,265 Views
15 Pages

A Trusted Multi-Cloud Brokerage System for Validating Cloud Services Using Ranking Heuristics

  • Rajganesh Nagarajan,
  • Vinothiyalakshmi Palanichamy,
  • Ramkumar Thirunavukarasu and
  • J. Arun Pandian

Cloud computing offers a broad spectrum of services to users, particularly in multi-cloud environments where service-centric features are introduced to support users from multiple endpoints. To improve service availability and optimize the utilizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,956 Views
32 Pages

With the increasing integration of artificial intelligence into e-commerce platforms, trust in algorithmic decision-making has become a critical issue. Recommender systems significantly shape consumer choices and influence visibility within digital m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,861 Views
17 Pages

30 December 2025

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in critical infrastructures has raised significant concerns regarding network security and reliability. In particular, RPL (Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks), widely adopted in...

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