Ionica Oncioiu

The growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI)-based recommendation systems is transforming e-commerce into a space where decision-making is increasingly co-constructed between users and intelligent systems. However, it remains insufficiently understood how the transparency of these systems influences users’ trust and purchasing decisions within human–AI collaboration contexts.

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1 Introduction Modern computing technologies, for instance, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) Sasikumar et al. (2023), high-speed networks Bing et al. (2023) Hassan et al. (2018), and cloud computing Xu et al. (2023) possess ubiquitous real-world applications Hassan et al. (2021) Liu et al. (2023) Hassan et al. (2023). The massive amounts of data collected across various domains necessitate storage, processing, and applying specific monitoring and managing techniques.