Trust and Security in Collaborative Computing

According to Zou (Indiana U.-Purdue U.), Dai (U. of Tennessee), and Pan (Georgia State U.), collaborative computing applications include multi-party military actions, teleconferencing, telemedicine, interactive and collaborative decision making, grid-computing, information distribution, and pay per view services. Collaborative computing environments are group-oriented and involve a large number of entities and shared resources and therefore pose challenges for building trust in security and dependability. This monograph explores issues connected to trust in collaborative computing, including secure group communication and interaction, data sharing/exchange and access control, intrusion attacks and their corresponding detection and response technologies, grid reliability analysis and modeling, grid security, and the integration of security and reliability technologies into medical information systems. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)