Managing Trust in Cyberspace

Bringing together expertise from technology-oriented sciences, law, philosophy, and social sciences, this volume examines fundamental issues underpinning computational trust models and includes a wide-ranging discussion on various trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications. Topics include trust in autonomic and self-organized networks, security and quality issues in trusting e-government service delivery, and context-aware e-commerce applications. The book also presents a walk-through of online identity management and discusses using trust and argumentation in multi-agent recommender systems. It concludes with a comprehensive survey of anti-forensics for network security and a review of password security and protection.

Sabu M. Thampi received his Ph.D from National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India. He is a member of IEEE and ACM. He has chaired/co-chaired and acted as program committee member for many conferences and workshops; authored/edited a number of books and several papers; and guest-edited, reviewed, and served as editorial board member for multiple international journals. Currently he is associate professor at Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, Trivandrum and editor-in-chief of International Journal of Trust Management in Computing and Communications, Inderscience Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland.

Bharat Bhargava is professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. He built one of the first electronic medical care record systems in Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, USA, has worked on reliability and integrity issues in distributed systems, and has built several systems such as RAID (Reliable and Adaptable) and Promise (P2P). A fellow of IEEE, IETE, and CERIAS, he has helped found multiple conferences and received Technical Achievement, Golden Core, and Distinguished Service Awards from various societies as well as awards for graduate mentoring, engagement, and diversity from Purdue’s College of Science.

Pradeep K. Atrey holds a Ph.D from National University of Singapore. Currently he serves as associate professor at The University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and on the editorial board of several industry journals. He also has served as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; authored/co-authored over 60 research articles; and been associated with over 20 international conferences in various roles such as general chair, program chair, publicity chair, web chair, and TPC member. Recognized as an ICME Quality Reviewer, he has received the ETRI Journal Best Reviewer Award and The University of Winnipeg Merit Award for Exceptional Performance.