An algebra for trust dilution and trust fusion

  • Authors:
  • Baptiste Alcalde;Sjouke Mauw

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg;University of Luxembourg

  • Venue:
  • FAST'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Formal Aspects in Security and Trust
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Trust dilution and trust fusion are two operators that are used to calculate transitive trust in a trust network. Various implementations of these operators already exist but are not fully motivated. In this paper we define the basic properties of these two operators by developing a trust algebra. We evaluate several new and existing models against the axioms of this algebra, amongst which a number of variations of the Subjective Logic. The algebra enables the comparison of models and gives more insight in the available recommendation models and their properties.