Description:
Bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise, this illustrated, tutorial-style text addresses fundamentals underpinning computational trust models and covers trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications. Topics include trust in autonomic and self-organized networks, cloud computing, embedded computing, multi-agent systems, digital rights management, security and quality issues in trusting e-government service delivery, and context-aware e-commerce applications. The book walks through online identity management, examines using trust and argumentation in recommender systems, and concludes with a comprehensive survey of anti-forensics for network security and password protection.
Review Quotes:
"Academia and industry...need a published book covering [trust management] ... The research on trust has advanced and is mature enough to have a book only focused on this topic. ... it is a hot topic that will be used for a long time in security systems."
-- Jaime Lloret Mauri, Polytecnic University of Valencia, Spain