Reputation Bootstrapping for Trust Establishment among Web Services

by Zaki Malik and Athman Bouguettaya

With the growing trend in Web services, the World Wide Web is shifting from being merely a data repository to being an environment (dubbed the service Web) in which Web users or other applications can automatically invoke other Web services. We define a Web service as a self-describing software application that can be advertised, located, and used across the Web using a set of standards. The research community envisions that enterprises in the new service Web would no longer represent single, monolithic organizations, but rather a loose coupling of smaller applications offered as Web services by autonomous providers. However, consensus is growing that this Web service "revolution" won't eventuate until we resolve trust-related issues.

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This month's theme: TRUST MANAGEMENT

About this month's theme:
In recent years, trust in computing has been receiving increased attention. With the emphasis on loosely coupled and decentralized systems and the advent of service orientation, trust management has moved beyond the domains of security, multiagent systems, and e-commerce to become a key concern across all aspects of computing. Read more ►

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