A language for trust modelling

Conference item

The computational trust paradigm supposes that it is possible to quantify trust relations that occur within some software systems. The paradigm covers a variety of trust systems, such as trust management systems, reputation systems and trust-based security systems. Different trust systems have different assumptions, and various trust models have been developed on top of these assumptions Typically, trust models are incomparable, or even mutually unintelligible; as a result their evaluation may be circular or biased.We propose a unified language to express the trust models and trust systems. Within the language, all trust models are comparable, and the problem of circularity or bias is mitigated. Moreover, given a complete set of assumptions in the language, a unique trust model is defined.

Authors: Muller, T; Zhang, J; Liu, Y

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Host title: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016)
• Journal: International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016)
• Publication date: 2016-09-24
• Acceptance date: 2016-07-05
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46840-2 1