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Research in the field of Trust Management is blooming producing new Trust Frameworks within short time intervals. However, trust researchers do not develop distributed systems. Most developers are not familiar with security procedures and therefore often introduce other security vulnerabilities during implementation. We wish to provide a solution for system designers and developers for applying Trust...
Nietzsche describes what is at the core of the concept of trust as it is used in agent societies and self-organising systems. Trust describes the expectation of one entity that the other behaves according to a set of rules. If that trust is broken, it is very hard to repair. If it exists, however, it is the basis of cooperation and enables a collective effort that gives a society purpose and allows...
Open computing systems, from sensor networks to Smart-Grids, face the same challenge: a set of autonomous, heterogenous agents, needing to collectivise and distribute resources without a centralised decision-making authority. One possible solution is to collectively agree a set of rules for resource provision and appropriation, but there remains the possibility for some agents not to comply with the...
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