Abstract
In the project “Social Network of the Computer Scientists in the Regions of the Czech Republic” (SoSIReCR), our aim is to build a social network of Czech informatics community, so that its members can better cooperate and exchange information. In such a social network, the aspect of trust of a member of the informatics community willing to depend on another member is of crucial importance.
Unfortunately, trust is typically comprehended as a black box and indivisible concept, leading to confusion of the social network members what trust actually is. To minimize that confusion, we choose in this paper a different approach – trust is comprehended as a set of trusting beliefs (the simpler and more intuitive concepts than trust).
To identify these beliefs we conduct a survey of the trust literature. Consequently, we select a suitable set of these beliefs relevant for the SoSIReCR project and evaluate the selection process by consulting it (mainly) with the members of the informatics community.