Trust, Complexity and Control

Trust, Complexity and Control
Author: Piotr Cofta
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2007-09-27
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780470517840

An increasing reliance on the Internet and mobile communication has deprived us of our usual means of assessing another party’s trustworthiness. This is increasingly forcing us to rely on control. Yet the notion of trust and trustworthiness is essential to the continued development of a technology-enabled society. Trust, Complexity and Control offers readers a single, consistent explanation of how the sociological concept of ‘trust’ can be applied to a broad spectrum of technology-related areas; convergent communication, automated agents, digital security, semantic web, artificial intelligence, e-commerce, e-government, privacy etc. It presents a model of confidence in which trust and control are driven and limited by complexity in one explanatory framework and demonstrates how that framework can be applied to different research and application areas. Starting with the individual’s assessment of trust, the book shows the reader how application of the framework can clarify misunderstandings and offer solutions to complex problems. The uniqueness of Trust, Complexity and Control is its interdisciplinary treatment of a variety of diverse areas using a single framework. Sections featured include: Trust and distrust in the digital world. The impact of convergent communication and networks on trust. Trust, economy and commerce. Trust-enhancing technologies. Trust, Complexity and Control is an invaluable source of reference for both researchers and practitioners within the Trust community. It will also be of benefit to students and lecturers in the fields of information technology, social sciences and computer engineering.

Trust, Control, and the Economics of Governance

Trust, Control, and the Economics of Governance
Author: Philipp Herold
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000023346

In today’s world, we cooperate across legal and cultural systems in order to create value. However, this increases volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity as challenges for societies, politics, and business. This has made governance a scarce resource. It thus is inevitable that we understand the means of governance available to us and are able to economize on them. Trends like the increasing role of product labels and a certification industry as well as political movements towards nationalism and conservatism may be seen as reaction to disappointments from excessive cooperation. To avoid failures of cooperation, governance is important – control through e.g. contracts is limited and in governance economics trust is widely advertised without much guidance on its preconditions or limits. This book draws on the rich insight from research on trust and control, and accommodates the key results for governance considerations in an institutional economics framework. It provides a view on the limits of cooperation from the required degree of governance, which can be achieved through extrinsic motivation or building on intrinsic motivation. Trust Control Economics thus inform a more realistic expectation about the net value added from cooperation by providing a balanced view including the cost of governance. It then becomes clear how complex cooperation is about ‘governance accretion’ where limited trustworthiness is substituted by control and these control instances need to be governed in turn. Trust, Control, and the Economics of Governance is a highly necessary development of institutional economics to reflect progress made in trust research and is a relevant addition for practitioners to better understand the role of trust in the governance of contemporary cooperation-structures. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of economics and business management, institutional economics, and business ethics. Note that this work is the first of its kind that explicitly reflects on the societal realities, how these drive the assumption setting process, and how these assumptions influence the theory outcome.

Trust Management XIII

Trust Management XIII
Author: Weizhi Meng
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2019-10-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030337162

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, IFIPTM 2019, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2019. The 7 revised full papers, 3 short papers, and 6 work-in-progress papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover a broad range of topics related to trust, security and privacy and focus on trust in information technology and identity management, socio-technical and sociological trust, and emerging technology for trust.

Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations

Trust in Knowledge Management and Systems in Organizations
Author: Maija-Leena Huotari
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781591401261

This work aims at tying trust to knowledge management (KM). It highlights the complexity of the invisible phenomenon of trust challenged by the global economy, and explores the multidisciplinary nature of the concepts of trust and KM.

Trust in Human-Robot Interaction

Trust in Human-Robot Interaction
Author: Chang S. Nam
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0128194731

Trust in Human-Robot Interaction addresses the gamut of factors that influence trust of robotic systems. The book presents the theory, fundamentals, techniques and diverse applications of the behavioral, cognitive and neural mechanisms of trust in human-robot interaction, covering topics like individual differences, transparency, communication, physical design, privacy and ethics. Presents a repository of the open questions and challenges in trust in HRI Includes contributions from many disciplines participating in HRI research, including psychology, neuroscience, sociology, engineering and computer science Examines human information processing as a foundation for understanding HRI Details the methods and techniques used to test and quantify trust in HRI

Managing Complex Governance Systems

Managing Complex Governance Systems
Author: Geert Teisman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2009-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135235295

Gathering some of the latest research in the field, the original essays collected here explain how non-linear dynamics, self-organisation of many agents and the co-evolution of processes combine to generate the evolution of governance processes, especially for public urban and metropolitan investments.

Trust

Trust
Author: Reinhard K. Sprenger
Publisher: Campus Verlag
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3593415887

In business, nothing is more important than trust. No company can prosper without trust between management and employees, among colleagues and partners, and between the organization and the outside world. Trust is the strongest foundation for customer loyalty, staff motivation and market confidence. This book brings trust out of the realm of ideals and the reveals that it isn't just a virtue, but an economic necessity, especially for a company operating in today's turbulent markets. The author explodes a number of dangerous myths about trust: that it is no more than a feel-good factor, that it has to be earned, and that trust is fine but control is better. He shows that the mistrust prevalent in many corporations can incur huge commercial costs, and explains the quickest and most direct ways for a company to win trust. Reinhard Sprenger is a passionate advocate of putting trust into action in the way companies are run. As he shows management rhetoric is one thing; genuine, deep-seated and widespread trust quite another. In the end, real trust will do more for a company's security than any security measure, exert control more effectively than any control system, and create more value than any value-creation programme.

Organizational Trust

Organizational Trust
Author: Johannes Karl Mühl
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319040693

Organizations consider trust as a pillar for successful operations in an increasingly global competitive environment. Some professionals go further and argue that in an economy trust is more important than natural resources. This book deals with ways to measure trust and its impact on organizational performance, as well as to understand the role of Management Accounting in creating trust. The author demonstrates that trust drives organizational performance, and reveals the key role of management accountants in facilitating the flow of trust between CEOs and line managers.

Trust and Power

Trust and Power
Author: Niklas Luhmann
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-10-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1509519483

In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in what he refers to as ideologies – accounts which use implicit beliefs in particular conceptions of human nature to explain and predict social action in a one-dimensional way. Theories of rational choice and moralistic explanations are taken to task, as are the theories of both Marx and Habermas. Luhmann's unique scientific sociology underpins every page and enables him to highlight the potential shortcomings of these narrative approaches. Underlying this approach is the idea that ideologically-based social theory, whether critical or conservative, is unable to do justice to the complexities existing within the parameters of social systems, individuals, and the interactions between them. He aims to show instead how only a painstaking systems analysis can capture these intricacies. Although written over 40 years ago, Luhmann's complex vision of the operations of trust and power provides a wealth of insights of considerable value to scholars and students grappling with contemporary social and economic problems. The editors' introduction to this new edition and the significant revisions they have made to the translation will help to reveal the richness and clarity of this vision and its relevance to the ways that trust and power operate in today's society.

Foundations of Trusted Autonomy

Foundations of Trusted Autonomy
Author: Hussein A. Abbass
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2018-01-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319648160

This book establishes the foundations needed to realize the ultimate goals for artificial intelligence, such as autonomy and trustworthiness. Aimed at scientists, researchers, technologists, practitioners, and students, it brings together contributions offering the basics, the challenges and the state-of-the-art on trusted autonomous systems in a single volume. The book is structured in three parts, with chapters written by eminent researchers and outstanding practitioners and users in the field. The first part covers foundational artificial intelligence technologies, while the second part covers philosophical, practical and technological perspectives on trust. Lastly, the third part presents advanced topics necessary to create future trusted autonomous systems. The book augments theory with real-world applications including cyber security, defence and space.