A closer look on conceptual modeling of trust to develop trustman system
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2011
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International Journal of Computer Science
Abstract
Designing comprehensive trust models and mechanisms to
address challenges related to mediating business oriented
collaboration among organizations has become a
fundamental focus of research on trust and particularly those
focused on organizational Trust Management (TrustMan)
Systems. Despite recent achievements from research
addressing the modeling of trust, there are still insufficient
generic and customizable models, mechanisms and tools to
support emerging requirements on inter-organizational trust
analysis. Most available model solutions supporting trust
analysis are limited to: a specific application case (e.g.
multi-agent systems), known actors (organizations or
individuals), or domain of study (e.g. health domain). These
solutions are also limited to some specific set of trust criteria
applied to their development such as a small set of trust
criteria for analysis of rational trust in organization. In this
article we advocate that a large number of elements must be
properly specified and modeled to comprehensively cover
the trust objectives of organizations towards developing a
supportive TrustMan system. This article analyzes and
proposes three specific modeling formalisms that best
represent trust relationships among organizations and
presents some examples for those formalisms. It also
analyzes classes of models of inter-organizational trust,
namely: hard models, soft models and semi-soft models.
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An article submitted to IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 8, Issue 2, March 2011
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Trust elements, trust models, interorganizational trust, collaborative networks, VO breeding environments, TrustMan system
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