Volume 1 - Issue 4
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Frontiers in Trust Management
- Christian Damsgaard Jensen
Technical University of Denmark
Christian.Jensen@imm.dtu.dk
- Nicola Dragoni
Technical University of Denmark
ndra@imm.dtu.dk
- Anirban Basu
Tokai University, Japan
abasu@cs.dm.u-tokai.ac.jp
- Clara Mancini
The Open University, United Kingdom
c.mancini@open.ac.uk
Keywords: Trust Management, Information and Communication Technologies, Privacy-Preserving Cloud Database Queryin
Abstract
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming increasingly important in the way
we organize our lives, our workplaces and our societies. ICT allows people and organisations, that have
never interacted with each other in the past, to initiate new and mutually beneficial businesses across the
world. This means that personal and business information is increasingly being communicated across
interpersonal, inter-business and international borders. Keeping this information safe and protecting the
fragile IT infrastructure from criminals is a growing problem in most societies. Unfortunately, traditional
security technologies based on a strong perimeter defence work poorly in an inter-connected world that
obeys Metcalfe’s law which states that “the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number
of connected users of the system”, i.e., where there is a strong incentive for interactions across the
different borders. During the past decade, trust management has emerged as a promising solution to
many challenges in networks and distributed systems as well as emerging problems in computer security
and privacy.