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Trust Points and Trust Issues

ACM News Service: A Trust Analysis Methodology for Pervasive Computing Systems.  In analyzing the trustworthiness of software, I notice that there are trust surfaces and trust points—places where there is an (usually-tacit) assumption of trust in some service or resource being relied upon.  While I am struggling to formuate something crisp in this area, this approach comes to my attention.

The ACM TechNews blurb summarizes an approach to trust analysis that identifies a grouping of trust-issue categories:

• Subjective Trust
  – personal responsibility
  – reasoning
  – usability
  – harm
• System
  – audit trail
  – authorization
  – identification
  – availability
  – reliability
• Data
  – source vs. interpretation
  – accuracy

The work of Lo Presti, Butler, Leuschel, and Booth is a chapter in a Springer Lecture Notes publication, Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies.  A PDF of the chapter is available as an EPrint of the University of Southampton.  There are valuable references and consideration of trust metrics in a five-stage Trust Analysis Methodology.  I’m not sure the methodology works in the context of my TROSTing effort, but the overall model and consideration of the categories of trust is extremely valuable to build on.

The book also has an interesting article by José M. Vidal on distributed recommenders and there are contributions by Leon van der Torre .  The AgentLink effort has some material on trust related to agent technology.

posted by orcmid at 4/26/2005 05:06:12 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online