A formal approach towards measuring trust in distributed systems

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1739-1745

  Schryen, Guido ^a   Volkamer, Melanie ^b   Ries, Sebastian ^b   Habib, Sheikh Mahbub ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED SECURITY; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; FORMAL APPROACH; INFORMATION SHARING; NEW OPTIONS; PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SECURITY REQUIREMENTS; SERVICE PROVIDER; TRUST MEASUREMENT; TRUST METRICS; TRUST SERVICE;

NETWORK SECURITY; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 79959305060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982548     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (41)

1. A. Atzeni and A. Lioy. Why to adopt a security metric? A brief survey. In 1st Workshop on Quality of Protection, volume 23 of Advances in Information Security, pages 1-12. Springer, September 2005.
2. T. Beth, M. Borcherding, and B. Klein. Valuation of trust in open networks. In Proc. 3rd European Symposium on Research in Computer Security - ESORICS '94, pages 3-18, 1994.
3. H. Billhardt, R. Hermoso, S. Ossowski, and R. Centeno. Trust-based service provider selection in open environments. In SAC '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pages 1375-1380. ACM Press, 2007.
4. R. Blakley and G. Kabatiansky. Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, chapter Secret Sharing Schemes, pages 544-545. Springer, 2005.
5. M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and A. D. Keromytis. Keynote: Trust management for public-key infrastructures. In Security Protocols Workshop, pages 59-63, 1998.
6. M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and J. Lacy. Decentralized trust management. In Proceedings from the 17th Symposium on Security and Privacy, page 164ï¿1/2 173. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.
7. M. Blaze, J. Feigenbaum, and J. Lacy. Decentralized trust management. In Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP '96), pages 164-173. IEEE Computer Society, 1996.
8. R. Böhme and F. Freiling. On metrics and measurements. In Dependability Metrics, pages 7-13. Springer, 2008.
9. R. Böhme and T. Nowey. Economic security metrics. In I. Eusgeld, F. C. Freiling, and R. Reussner, editors, Dependability Metrics, pages 176-187, 2008.
10. S. Buchegger and J.-Y. Le Boudec. A Robust Reputation System for Peer-to-Peer and Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. In P2PEcon 2004, 2004.
11. D. Gambett. Trust: Making and Breaking Cooperative Relations, chapter Can we Trust Trust?, pages 213-237. Basil Blackwell, New York, 1988.
12. E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. E. Johnson, and J. M. Vlissides. Design patterns: Abstraction and reuse of object-oriented design. In ECOOP '93: Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, pages 406-431. Springer, 1993.
13. T. Grandison and M. Sloman. A survey of trust in internet applications. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 3(4):2-16, 2000.
14. D. Heimann and N. Mittal. Availability and reliability modeling for computer systems. Advances in Computers, 31:175-233, 1990.
15. T. Hofmeister, M. Krause, and H. Simon. Optimal k out of n secret sharing schemes in visual cryptography. Theoretical Computer Science, 240:471-485, 2000.
16. A. Jøsang. A logic for uncertain probabilities. International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, 9(3):279-212, 2001.
17. A. Jøsang, R. Ismail, and C. Boyd. A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision. Decision Support Systems, 43(2):618-644, 2007. (Pubitemid 46216533)
18. A. Jürgenson and J. Willemson. Computing exact outcomes of multi-parameter attack trees. In Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Conferences, pages 1036-1051, 2008.
19. A. Jøsang and D. McAnally. Multiplication and comultiplication of beliefs. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, 38(1):19-51, 2004.
20. S. D. Kamvar, M. T. Schlosser, and H. Garcia-Molina. The eigentrust algorithm for reputation management in P2P networks. In Proc. of the 12th Int. Conf. on World Wide Web, pages 640-651. ACM Press, 2003.
21. R. Kohlas, J. Jonczy, and R. Haenni. A trust evaluation method based on logic and probability theory. In 2nd Joint iTrust and PST Conferences on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, volume II, pages 17-32, 2008.
22. K. Krukow and M. Nielsen. Trust structures: Denotational and operational semantics. International Journal of Information Security, 6(2-3):153-181, 2007. (Pubitemid 46487968)
23. U. Maurer. Modelling a public-key infrastructure. In Computer Security - ESORICS 96, pages 325-350. Springer, 1996.
24. NIST. Performance measurement guide for information security, May 2008. NIST Special Publication 800-55 Revision 1.
25. S. C. Payne. A guide to security metrics. Technical report, The SANS Institute, 2006.
26. S. Ries. Extending bayesian trust models regarding context-dependence and user friendly representation. In Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. ACM Press, 2009.
27. S. Ries. Trust in Ubiquitous Computing. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2009.
28. S. Ries and A. Heinemann. Analyzing the robustness of CertainTrust. In 2nd Joint iTrust and PST Conference on Privacy, Trust Management and Security, pages 51-67. Springer, 2008.
29. R. Savola. Towards a taxonomy for information security metrics. In QoP '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Quality of protection, pages 28-30. ACM, 2007.
30. B. Schneier. Attack trees: Modeling security threats. Dr. Dobb's journal, 24:21-29, 1999.
31. G. Schryen and E. Rich. Security in Large-Scale Internet Elections: A Retrospective Analysis of Elections in Estonia, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 4(4):729-744, 2009.
32. A. Shamir. How to share a secret. Commun. ACM, 22(11):612-613, 1979.
33. R. Sharman, R. Rao, and S. Upadhyaya. Metrics for information security - a literature review. In Proceedings of Americas Conference on Information Systems, pages 1436-1440, 2004.
34. W. T. L. Teacy, J. Patel, N. R. Jennings, and M. Luck. TRAVOS: Trust and reputation in the context of inaccurate information sources. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 12(2):183-198, 2006. (Pubitemid 43417510)
35. E. Triantaphyllou. Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods: A comparative Study, volume 44 of Applied Optimization. Springer, 2000.
36. R. Vaughn, R. Henning, and A. Siraj. Information assurance measures and metrics: State of practice and proposed taxonomy. In Proceedings of 36th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003.
37. E. Verheul and H. van Tilborg. Constructions and properties of k out of n visual secret sharing schemes. Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 11(2):179-196, 1997.
38. M. Volkamer and R. Grimm. Determine the Resilience of Evaluated Internet Voting Systems. In Proceedings of 1st RE-VOTE conference, pages 47-54, 2009.
39. A. Whitby, A. Jøsang, and J. Indulska. Filtering out unfair ratings in bayesian reputation systems. The ICFAIN Journal of Management Research, 4(2):48-64, 2005.
40. L. A. Zadeh. Fuzzy logic and approximate reasoning. Synthese, 30:407-428, 1975.
41. H.-J. Zimmermann. An application-oriented view of modelling uncertainty. European Journal of Operational Research, 122:190-198, 2000.