iTrust Working Group

This directory contains my personal notes relating to the iTrust working group.

The iTrust Working Group is an EU-funded activity that brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of disciplines (computer science, sociology, economics, law, philosophy) to develop models and techniques for dealing with trust in open dynamic systems.

The group's aims are to explore the role of trust, and its interactions with security and authorization concerns. Effective trust modelling is believed to be an enabler for a range of new computing services including enhanced e-commerce, ubiquitous computing, grid computing, online communities and probably a variety of collaborative/cooperative online activities that we haven't begun to imagine.

iTrust 2005, the Third International Conference on Trust Management, is scheduled to take place at Rocquencourt, near Paris, from 23rd to 26th May 2005. Details: http://www-rocq.inria.fr/arles/events/iTrust2005/.

My related pages

• RDF notes.
  • Putting Semantics in the Semantic Web (personal thoughts).
• Semantic Web Advanced Development Europe (SWAD-E).

First working group meeting: 2-4 September 2002, Glasgow

• Mindmap pages of notes from the first meeting.

Third working group internal meeting: 6-9 October 2004, Dortmund

• Mindmap notes from the meeting (FreeMind file, HTML dump).
  • FreeMind is available from: http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page.

Presentations and notes about trust

• Position paper and presentation about standards for trust management. See directory listing for other files.
• Survey of papers from 1st and 2nd iTrust conferences:
  • Presentation (PPT, PDF).
  • Survey (HTML).
  • Raw survey data (Notation3).
  • Rules for processing raw data (Notation3).
  • Processed data (Notation3)
  • See directory listing for other files.

Links to related information

• Working group home page: http://www.itrust.uoc.gr/.
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (CCLRC) page on iTrust: http://www.bitd.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/ACTIVITY=iTRUST.
• A P3P Assurance Signature Profile, Joseph Reagle, W3C Note 2 February 2001, http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-p3p-profile/. This note discusses use of RDF in an XML sigtnature to convey ionformation about the assurance that is intended to be conveyed by the signature.
• Framework for Security and Trust Standards, Graham Klyne, http://www.ninebynine.org/SWAD-E/Security-formats.html. A survey of trust-related protocols, prepared for SWAD-E.
• SECURE project: http://secure.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/.
  • Cambridge group: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/opera/projects/secure/.
• TrustCom project: http://www.eu-trustcom.com/.
• ALFEBiiTE project: http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~alfebiite/ab-home.htm, http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~alfebiite/ab-events-page.htm.
• CORAS project: http://www.nr.no/coras/.
  • CORAS platform software: http://coras.sourceforge.net/.
• Chris Bizer's page of links to Semantic Web and other trust-related resources: http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/SWTSGuide/.
• The Transparency Paradox, Daniel Weizner (W3C):
  • http://www.w3.org/2004/05/loc-priv-transparency-extab.html (extended abstract)
    
  • http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0302-trans-privacy-swig/ (presentation slides)
• W3C Web-of-trust site access example: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/Trust.