Combining economic, social-psychological and sociological approaches trust, this book provides a general theoretical … framework to explain conditional and unconditional trust; it also presents an experimental test of the corresponding integrative … model and its predictions. Broadly, it aims at advancing a "cognitive turn" in trust research by highlighting the importance …

In this thesis we discuss two demanding problems from the field of computer and communication security that involve … trust. The first is known as the database service provider problem: A database owner wants a database service provider (DSP … applications it is desirable that nodes can join anonymously, but anonymity makes it easy to spread false reputation information. A …

altruism, and (3) the possibility of sustained mutual cooperation in finitely repeated social dilemmas is affected by the …