The development and advancement of technologies have enabled users to complete their tasks efficiently. They have also provided them with various options and alternatives to complete and achieve their tasks. In such an environment, it is imperative for a user to make informed decisions that...

While making an interaction-based decision in the domain of e-commerce business interactions, it is important for the initiating agent of the interaction to analyze and consider the level of perceived risk in forming an interaction with an agent, apart from just considering the level of trust....

The trusting peer in order to determine the likelihood of the loss in its resources might analyze the Risk before engaging in an interaction with any trusted peer. This likelihood of the loss in the resources is termed as Risk in the interaction. Risk analysis is important in e-commerce...

As there is a lack of central management in an ecommerce interaction carried out based on peer-to-peer architecture, it is obvious for the trusting peer to analyze the Risk beforehand that could be involved in dealing with a trusted peer in these types of interactions. Another characteristic of...

Business activities are a result of carefully formed associations between different users in order to achieve certain pre-decided outcomes. Decision-making in such associations is an important step and transactional risk analysis is one of the integral processes that facilitates this step. This...

The credit crunch and economic crisis have demonstrated the need to properly understand, characterize and assimilate risk in business activities. Failure to do this has resulted in serious consequences to the users involved. So the analysis and management of risk is one of the important...

In a peer-to-peer financial transaction there is a possibility of the trusted peer engaging in an untrustworthy manner and in a negative behaviour on the buyer's expense resulting in the loss of the buyer's resources. This possibility of the loss in the buyer's resources is termed as Risk. Hence...

In a business interaction, risk highlights and expresses the uncertainty associated with the achievement of desired outcomes. Failure to achieve these outcomes will result in the interacting userexperiencing financial loss in the business interaction. The level of financial loss that could be...