Towards a Model for Trust Relationships in Virtual Enterprises

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Mezzetti

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '03 Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Trust is a crucial concept in order to address scalabilityin managing security tasks such as authentication, authorizationand access control. In this paper we discuss theconcept of trust by defining a general theoretical model todescribe basic trust relationships in heterogeneous environmentscomposed of several Administrative Domains (ADs),i.e. autonomous domains for both security and administrativeissues.As a result, we introduce the design of a Trust ManagementSystem (TMS) that we plan to deploy into a middlewarearchitecture in order to provide a framework for implementingtrust relationships in Virtual Enterprises (VEs).