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Information technology today is a vast body of knowledge that has found applications in most areas of human activity and thought. With the proliferation of the Internet and its various applications, the role of information technology in society has become vital and is rapidly increasing in importance. It can be said that the Internet has become intertwined with society; and with each new generation...
The subject of this book is an area of research that is in the scope of interests of many disciplines. While the main focus of this book is on information technology, it cannot be denied that sociology, economics, psychology, as well as mathematics (most prominently, game theory) have contributed extensively to the subject. Moreover, research in information technology often based on the results from...
Trust Management (TM) is an area of information technology that aims to improve the operation of open, distributed systems by predicting or influencing the behavior of their users. When applied to human users, Trust Management methods attempt to leverage the human capacity for trust or distrust. Alternatively, TM systems can also be applied to control the behavior of non-human agents. In such a case,...
By Fairness Management we refer to a wide variety of techniques that aim to improve the procedural or distributional fairness of ODS. This chapter begins with a consideration of Fairness Management for resource sharing in an ODS, and presents various application areas where such a problem needs to be solved. The discussion of these application areas will be accompanied by case studies that present...
The problems of fair distribution, assuring fair behavior, and enabling agents to make decisions under uncertainty on the basis of trust, are among the most challenging in informatics today. A wide variety of applications require the solutions of these problems. Some of these applications have been presented in this book, along with some proposed solutions that have been grouped in two areas of Trust...
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