M Wojcik, HS Venter, JHP Eloff and MS Olivier, "Incorporating Prejudice into Trust Models to Reduce Network Overload," in D Browne (ed), Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2005 (SATNAC 2005) Proceedings, Vol 1, 195-200, Champagne Castle, South Africa, September 2005
Trust and trust models have invoked a wide interest in the field of computer science. Trust models are seen as the solution to interactions between agents (computer systems) that may not have previously interacted with one another; as is often the case in the uncertain world of e-commerce. These models are seen as facilitators to the definition and development of interaction between two such agents. Trust models rely heavily on a knowledge-building process to evaluate the value, or in some instances to become aware of the risk of communicating with another agent. The observation of other agents or the sharing of knowledge between agents accomplishes this. Thus, trust models rely heavily on the flow of information between machines.
The problem this paper addresses is: How do we lessen the number of communications a single agent has to deal with in order to allow the agent to have sufficient time and resources to accurately analyse these interactions? The suggested solution involves adding a prejudice filter to current trust models. This paper investigates the value of reducing network overload by limiting communication through prejudice and suggests possible filtering factors that can be used in such a scenario. These factors are based on existing security and trust implementations in order to simplify the incorporation of prejudice into current trust models and trust model architecture.
Category, certificate, domain, intermediary, learning, organization, prejudice, policy, recommendation, trust, trust mod
@INPROCEEDINGS(prejudice,
AUTHOR={Marike Wojcik and Hein S Venter and Jan H P Eloff and Martin S Olivier},
TITLE={Incorporating Prejudice into Trust Models to Reduce Network Overload},
BOOKTITLE={Southern African Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
2005 (SATNAC 2005) Proceedings},
VOLUME={1},
EDITOR={David Browne},
ADDRESS={Champagne Castle, South Africa},
MONTH={September},
YEAR={2005},
PAGES={195--200} )
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