Trust Management Model and Architecture for Context-Aware Service Platforms

The entities participating in a context-aware service platform need to establish and manage trust relationships in order to assert different trust aspects including identity provisioning, privacy enforcement, and context information provisioning. Current trust management models address these trust aspects individually when in fact they are dependent on each other. In this paper we identify and analyze the trust relationships in a context-aware service platform and propose an integrated trust management model that supports quantification of trust for different trust aspects. Our model addresses a set of trust aspects that is relevant for our target context-aware service platform and is extensible with other trust aspects. We propose to calculate a resulting trust value for contextaware services, which considers the dependencies between the different trust aspects, and aims to support the users in the selection of the more trustworthy services. In this calculation we target two types of ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: OTM
• Authors: Ricardo Neisse, Maarten Wegdam, Marten van Sinderen, Gabriele Lenzini
• Keywords: Context-aware Service Platform, Internet Technology, OTM 2007, Trust, Trust Aspects