Modeling Trust Context in Networks
By: by Sibel Adali
Contributors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 83
ISBN-13: 9781461470311
Subjects: Computer Communication Networks; Computer simulation; Simulation and Modeling; Computer science
Description: We make complex decisions every day, requiring trust in many different entities for different reasons. These decisions are not made by combining many isolated trust evaluations. Many interlocking factors play a role, each dynamically impacting the others.  In this brief, "trust context" is defined as the system level description of how the trust evaluation process unfolds.Networks today are part of almost all human activity, supporting and shaping it. Applications increasingly incorporate new interdependencies and new trust contexts. Social networks connect people and organizations throughout the globe in cooperative and competitive activities. Information is created and consumed at a global scale. Systems, devices, and sensors create and process data, manage physical systems, and participate in interactions with other entities, people and systems alike.  To study trust in such applications, we need a multi-disciplinary approach.  This book reviews the components of the trust context through a broad review of recent literature in many different fields of study. Common threads relevant to the trust context across many application domains are also illustrated.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Trust as a Computational Concept; title: Trust as a Social and Cognitive Construct; title: Trust in Computing; title: Trust Context.