Abstract

This paper provides a visual representation of the trusting process. The benefits of defining trust with this approach are threefold: First, it gives a better understanding of the components that can be used in a trust management system. Second, it illustrates that the components contributing to the trust making process can be different from one environment to another; and third, it shows that the way one person trusts can be different from others. These elucidations have helped to introduce a new way of designing trust management systems. This design of trust management systems, rather than using the same static attributes to calculate trust for everyone, uses specific attributes based on each truster’s goals. Moreover, by using GRL and UCM as notations for trust modeling, we add another application to pervious applications of the mentioned notations and demonstrate that these notations can be used for various types of applications.

-- Daniel Amyot - 11 Nov 2007

Discussion

• Paper available at http://isew.cs.unb.ca/jbt/2007-2-4.pdf
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