Among the many works on trust negotiation, only a few deal with negotiation strategies. These works are tailored to specific frameworks—so their results cannot be extended to competing approaches—and introduce assumptions that cannot be always guaranteed. In this paper we identify some guidelines for designing “good” (interoperable) trust negotiation strategies under a different set of assumptions, namely, a peer’s interest in making transactions succeed. Moreover, since our analysis is based on an abstract framework, the guidelines apply to a wide range of policy languages and negotiation frameworks.
Sabrina Baselice, Piero A. Bonatti, Marco Faella