A Social Trust Model for Services Return to Published Papers

This paper proposes a formalism for the Trust requirements modeling framework, which can be used as a means of studying the trustworthiness of serviceoriented environments. We argue that a modeling framework, representing explicitly the underlying assumptions, essential factors, and reasoning rules about Trust, can not only describe the problem domain but also be reasoned formally. This model offers better understanding to the Trust relationships in a web services world. Eventually, it will assist participants of an open service network in making rational communication and operation decisions.