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General Methodology For Analysis And Modeling Of Trust Relationships In Distributed Computing, Weiliang Zhao, Vijay Varadharajan, George Bryan

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

In this paper, we discuss a general methodology for analysis and modeling of trust relationships in distributed computing. We discuss the classification of trust relationships, categorize trust relationships into two layers and provide a hierarchy of trust relationships based on a formal definition of trust relationship. We provide guidelines for the analysis and modeling of trust relationships. We review operations on trust relationships and relative types of trust relationships in our previous work. We provide a set of definitions for the properties of direction and symmetry of trust relationships. In order to analyze and model the scope and diversity of …