Trust Management for Service-Oriented Environments
Trust Management for Service-Oriented Environments presents social network-based techniques for establishing trust in decentralized environments. This is one of the first books that provide an overview of trust management for open service-oriented environ
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Zaki Malik • Athman Bouguettaya
Trust Management for Service-Oriented Environments
Zaki Malik Department of Computer Science Wayne State University 456 State Hall 5143 Cass Avenue Detroit, MI 48202 USA [email protected]
Athman Bouguettaya CSIRO ICT Center Australian National University Computer Sci. & Information Tech. Bldg. North Road Canberra, ACT 2601 Australia [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-0309-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-0310-5 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0310-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009934434 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.
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To all my family and friends. Zaki Malik
To my parents. Athman Bouguettaya
Foreword
Web services and service oriented environments are key enablers for the migration of entertainment, business, sociability, science and health-care from the physical world to the virtual world. The result of this on-going migration is a new “place” very much different from the physical world, one where interconnected services interact with human users, sensors and embedded devices. Yet for this vision to become reality, trust needs to be addressed as members of the global e-society regularly today deal with the question whether they can trust other, unknown parties. Trust is a vital component of internet-based interactions and service-oriented environment, but all too often it is assumed to be an implicit property that exists in the background rather than being an explicit property that is well-defined and quantifiable. While providing trust is challenging in existing computing systems, providing trust in service oriented environments is much more complex due to the dynamic and adaptable nature of these environment which are often large scale and across domains. To date the problem of trust for service oriented environments has been largely unexplored. This book represents the first comprehensive coverage of the principles, methods and systems for trust management and evaluation in service oriented environments. The book provides the key relevant foundations by looking at regulations and common practices, which that are the traditional solutions for establishing trust, and then discussing departures from these con
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