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The Metaphysics of Software Trust
March/April 2009 (vol. 11 no. 2)
pp. 52-55
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Keith W. Miller, Jeffrey Voas, "The Metaphysics of Software Trust," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 52-55, March/April, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MITP.2009.41,
author = {Keith W. Miller and Jeffrey Voas},
title = {The Metaphysics of Software Trust},
journal ={IT Professional},
volume = {11},
number = {2},
issn = {1520-9202},
year = {2009},
pages = {52-55},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MITP.2009.41},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Keith W. Miller, University of Illinois at Springfield
Jeffrey Voas, Science Applications International Corporation
This article focuses on the "trust" portion of the trust and dependability duet. Both concepts are important and delicately intertwined, but in this short discussion, the authors say they can only hope to explore one.

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Index Terms:
IT professional, trust, trustworthiness, trustworthy computing
Citation:
Keith W. Miller, Jeffrey Voas, "The Metaphysics of Software Trust," IT Professional, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 52-55, Mar./Apr. 2009, doi:10.1109/MITP.2009.41
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