Supporting Trust in Virtual Communities：（支持对虚拟社区的信任）.pdfVIP

Copyright 2000 IEEE. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences, Jan 4-7, 2000, Maui, Hawaii Supporting Trust in Virtual Communities Alfarez Abdul-Rahman Stephen Hailes Department of Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University College London, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom United Kingdom F.AbdulRahman@cs.ucl.ac.uk S.Hailes@cs.ucl.ac.uk Abstract Furthermore, trust, according to Luhmann [13] is also a tool At any given time, the stability of a community depends on for complexity reduction. This is accomplished by having the right balance of trust and distrust. Furthermore, we trust provide the internal security before taking an action face information overload, increased uncertainty and risk despite uncertainty and incomplete information. Several taking as a prominent feature of modern living. As other functions of trust are named in [18]. Some of them members of society, we cope with these complexities and include trust as something essential to economy and uncertainties by relying trust, which is the basis of all commerce, as facilitating problem solving by encouraging social interactions. Although a small number of trust information exc