An Introduction to Automated Trust Establishment

Efficient Trust Establishment Mechanisms

The extensive use of the Internet, for exchanging information, requesting and offering services make us to interact with unknown entities. Human use trust to facilitate interaction and accept the risk, when complete information is unavailable. In such situations, trust establishment mechanisms enable establishment of trust between unknown entities. Trust is a complex concept to define stringent...

Initial trust formation in Virtual Organisations

We present a conceptual framework that introduces key concepts capturing initial trust establishment in on-demand Virtual Organisations (VO). This framework can be used to develop trust formation protocols and policies. The framework can serve as a basis for implementing an automated system that facilitates the establishment of a VO, considerably reduces the effort for setting up a VO and conse...

Automated Trust Establishment in Open Systems

Towards Automated Trust Establishment in Federated Identity Management

We present the Federation Semantic Attribute Mapping System (F-SAMS), a web services based system which enables a semiautomated dynamic trust establishment mechanism for managing identity federations. We present the conceptual model which allows current members to dynamically introduce new members into the federation in a trustworthy manner, using a web of trust model. F-SAMS enables existing m...

Hybrid Techniques of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making for Location of Automated Teller Machines (ATMs): Shahr Bank Branches in Tehran, 1st District Municipality

Location is an important factor in the activity of economic enterprises. Owing to the importance, location-based sciencesought/seeks to provide the methods in order to determine and select the optimal location in the activities of enterprises. Enterprises seek to use scientific methods to maximize the services and efficiency and minimize the costs. Suitable location plays an important role in m...