Trust Management in Virtual Environment

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To date, "Web Security" has been associated with debates over cryptographic technology, protocols and public policy, obscuring the wider challenges of building trusted Web applications. Since the Web aims at being an information space that reflects not just human knowledge but also human relationships, it will soon realize the full complexity of trust relationships among people, computers and organizations. This has led to a new breed of systems – electronic trust management systems – which are quickly becoming an indispensable component of every successful digital community. Trust Management (TM) is an emerging framework for decentralizing security decisions that help developers and others in asking "why" trust is granted rather than immediately focusing on "how” cryptography can enforce it. Trust management is an attempt to design and evaluate reliable systems whose objective is to help create trust among online communities. The efficacy and sustainability of new age Internet applications that facilitate community building on the Internet – wiki, blogs, collaborative publishing, virtual communities – are essentially based on mutual trust among the participants. Given the anonymity one can enjoy on the Internet and the virtual nature of the WWW space, the significance of trust management need not be overemphasized. Trust is a precondition for the continued existence of any market or organization or a community in general. Furthermore, several properties of online interaction are challenging the accumulated wisdom of our communities on how to create trust and calls for the development of new mechanisms and systems. This book attempts to do just about that by providing insights into this new emerging framework on the Internet.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR B.Ravi Kumar Jain

Ravi Kumar Jain B holds an MBA degree (Finance) from Osmania University, Hyderabad and PGD ITM (E-commerce & EDI) from AIMA, New Delhi. He has worked as Assistant Professor in a B-school affiliated to Osmania University for four years in Hyderabad. Presently, he is working as a senior faculty member at Icfai Research Centre, Head quarters, heads Special projects team and also teaches at Icfai Business School, Hyderabad. He has presented several research papers in national and international conferences in India and abroad. He has got many of his articles published in several refereed journals. He has received an award, 'Researcher of the Year', from the Vice President of India, for the best contribution in an international conference on Enhancing Global Business Competitiveness in November 2004, at New Delhi. He has authored a book titled "Open Source Software: A Revolution in the Making" and has edited several books on the themes related to Internet and business management, the latest being "Internet Governance: An Introduction" and "IT Governance: An Introduction". His areas of interest include outsourcing, e-commerce, strategic management, technology in business and financial management.

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Title
Trust Management in Virtual Environment
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8131412541
Length
228p.
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