This study explores how system-based and cognitive-based factors affect platform trust and its role in the actual use of PayLater services (buy now, pay later or BNPL) in Indonesia and Malaysia. PayLater, a fintech innovation, provides fast and conve...
Cloud computing is now a fundamental type of computing due to technological innovation and it is believed to be a benefit for mid-scale enterprises. The use of cloud computing is increasing daily, which improves service quality but also gives rise to...
With the rapid development of Internet of Things technology, cloud computing, and big data, the combination of medical systems and information technology has become increasingly close. However, the emergence of intelligent medical systems has brought...
This study presents a novel keyword-based trust management system for fog computing networks aimed at improving network efficiency and ensuring data integrity. The proposed system establishes and maintains trust between fog nodes using trust keywords...
Currently, amateur tennis events are developing rapidly, and the trust system has become a common rule, integrating considerations of entertainment, fitness, and cost control. However, human-centered trust system rules still face some controversy, an...
E-commerce has become a crucial part of our life allowing us to buy products, request services, and transfer money easily with a press of a button. As such, establishing immutable trust and reputation of entities that are resilient to manipulation by...
One of the worst traffic problems today is the existence of huge traffic jams in almost any big city, produced by the large number of commuters using private cars. This problem has led to an increase in research on the optimization of vehicle occupancy...
As the market environment becomes increasingly complex, the demands for supply chain performance and security are continuously rising. Consequently, it is crucial to consider the role of trust factors within the system. This paper introduces a trust...
Based on the theory of system dynamics, we investigated the factors influencing the trust relationship between owners and PMC contractors in a Chinese management scenario, and proposed effective management strategies to increase the level of trust be...
The objective was to propose a human–robot bidirectional trust-triggered cyber–physical–human (CPH) system framework for human–robot collaborative assembly in flexible manufacturing and investigate the impact of modulating com...
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for securing cloud-native and distributed computing environments. However, existing ZTNA implementations remain largely limited by static policy enforcement and opaque machine-lea...
Routing attacks are a major security issue for Internet of Things (IoT) networks utilising routing protocols, as malicious actors can overwhelm resource-constrained devices with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, notably rank and blackhole attacks. In...
This study seeks to understand the key success factors that underpin efficiency, transparency, and user trust in automated decision support systems (DSS) that leverage AI technologies across industries. The aim of this study is to facilitate more acc...
Traditional systems in real life lack transparency and ease of use due to their reliance on centralization and large infrastructure. Furthermore, many sectors that rely on information technology face major challenges related to data integrity, trust,...
The growing complexity of digital real estate platforms demands intelligent recommendation systems (RS) capable of operating in data-sparse and heterogeneous environments. While transfer learning (TL) has proven effective in general RS, its applicati...
Three-dimensional (3D) data are easily collected in an unconscious way and are sensitive to lead biological characteristics exposure. Privacy and ownership have become important disputed issues for the 3D data application field. In this paper, we des...
With many advances in sensor technology and the Internet of Things, Vehicle Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is becoming a new generation. VANET’s current technical challenges are deploying decentralized architecture and protecting privacy. Because Block...
This paper exploits the staggered establishment of 43 social credit system pilot cities across two batches in China (2015 and 2016) as a quasi-natural experiment to examine the effect of institution-based trust on firm-level supply chain risk. Using...
In the context of dual-carbon goals, Park-Level Integrated Energy Systems (PIES) are pivotal for enhancing renewable energy integration and promoting clean, efficient energy use. However, the inherent non-linearity from multi-energy coupling and the...
Over the past years, online payments or cloud-based payments have significantly increased around the globe. Cloud-based payment systems (CBPS) are more involved in the payment process due to their convenience and flexibility. Although CBPS offers obv...
Recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload by helping users find information relevant to their preference. Memory-based recommender systems use correlation-based similarity to measure the common interest among users. The tru...
With the development of artificial intelligence technology, systems that can actively adapt to their surroundings and cooperate with other systems have become increasingly important. One of the most important factors to consider during the process of...
We consider the trusted operation of cyber-physical processes based on an assessment of the system’s state and operating mode and present a method for detecting anomalies in the behavior of a cyber-physical system (CPS) based on the analysis of...
One of the most important challenges in robotics is the development of a Multi-Robot-based control system in which the robot can make intelligent decisions in a changing environment. This paper proposes a robot-based control approach for dynamically...
The modelling of trust values on agents is broadly considered fundamental for decision-making in human-autonomous teaming (HAT) systems. Compared to the evaluation of trust values for robotic agents, estimating human trust is more challenging due to...
To address identity cloning, credential leakage, and delayed authorization in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems operating in open airspace, we propose a zero-trust authentication and authorization framework. SM9 identity-based mutual authenticati...
The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is considered a new paradigm in the era of wireless communication for performing automatic communication in the network. However, automatic computation and data recognition may invite several security and priv...
Cloud computing has increasingly adopted multi-tenant infrastructures to enhance cost efficiency and resource utilization by enabling the shared use of computational resources. However, this shared model introduces several security and privacy concer...
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...
There have been many attempts to understand the role of trust in the success of Information Systems (IS), but they have mainly studied users’ trust in IS themselves in online contexts, with little attention being paid to other possible trust ty...
In recent years, the concept of “open data” has received increasing attention among data providers and publishers. For some data portals in public sectors, such as data.gov, the openness enables public oversight of governmental proceeding...
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This research aims to investigate how much the Chinese elderly trust the healthcare system and the critical factors that influence their trust. We use data from the China Social Survey (CSS) collected by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in the...
The field of community sociology has yielded rich insights on how neighborhoods and individuals foster social capital and reap the benefits of interpersonal relationships and institutions alike. Traditionally, institutions and cultural factors have b...
In the context of accelerated digital transformation, organizations increasingly operate as complex systems in which strategic decision-making is challenged by uncertainty, data heterogeneity, and bounded rationality. The integration of artificial in...
The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) trust algorithms typically assume peer recommendations are independent, this leaves them vulnerable to coordinated Fake Relationship Attacks (FRA). Adversaries exploit this vulnerability by creating dense maliciou...
This study maps local social capital as a multidimensional configuration using the Local Social Capital (LSC) framework. We examine three conceptually interrelated but analytically distinct dimensions—network, civic norm environment, and instit...
With the explosive growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), the traditional single data sharing scheme has difficulty satisfying the data sharing needs of both same-domain and cross-domain IoT devices. In order to realize efficient data sharing of IoT...
The Zero Trust (ZT) model is pivotal in enhancing the security of distributed systems by emphasizing rigorous identity verification, granular access control (AC), and continuous monitoring. To address the complexity and scalability challenges of mode...
The construction of multilayer rail transit systems is a necessary way to realize “modern metropolitan areas on rail”, improve resource sharing, and increase travel services, where data integration is of utmost importance. To break data s...
Autonomous navigation (AN) and manoeuvring are increasingly important in distributed satellite systems (DSS) in order to avoid potential collisions with space debris and other resident space objects (RSO). In order to accomplish collision avoidance m...
Intelligent transportation solutions and smart information and communication technologies will be the core of future smart cities. For this purpose, these topics have captivated noteworthy interest in the investigation and construction of cleverer co...
Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) face critical challenges in trust management, privacy preservation, and scalability, particularly with the integration of 5G networks in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Traditional centralized trust models p...
In this article, we present the first proposal for contract signing based on blockchain that meets the requirements of fairness, hard-timeliness, and bc-optimism. The proposal, thanks to the use of blockchain, does not require the use of trusted thir...
This article proposes a novel method for managing usage counters within an anonymous credential system, addressing the limitation of traditional anonymous credentials in tracking repeated use. The method takes advantage of blockchain technology throu...
Background/Objectives: Efficient and personalized task allocation in hospital emergency departments (EDs) is critical for operational efficiency and patient-centered care. However, the complexity of staff coordination and the variability among patien...
Research on digital banking has largely examined technology adoption, while less is known about how perceived digital capability enters the prior decision of selecting a banking institution. This study adopts a system-based modelling perspective to e...
The exponential growth in the number of smart devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT) that are associated with various IoT-based smart applications and services, raises interoperability challenges. Service-oriented architecture for IoT (SOA...
We propose a decentralized medical trust management system using blockchain-based federated learning for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The proposed system enables health institutions to share data without revealing the privacy of data...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms are gaining increasing popularity due to their scalability, robustness and self-organization. In P2P systems, peers interact directly with each other to share resources or exchange services without a central authority to...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are crucial in various fields including Health Care Monitoring, Battlefield Surveillance, and Smart Agriculture. However, WSNs are susceptible to malicious attacks due to the massive quantity of sensors within them. He...
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