Trust management is by nature a "horizontal" multi-disciplinary area that brings together communities that have been nurtured so far different "vertical" areas such as reputation systems, security, identity and access management, social networks, risk and compliance, formal models, legal IT, economics, etc.
With the help of the IFIP Working Group, trust management shall start to find its own space in the research scene, separate from the ones where it has been nurtured in the past.
Working Group 11.11 aims to provide a forum for cross-disciplinary investigation of the application of trust as a means of establishing security and confidence in the global computing infrastructure, recognizing trust as a crucial enabler for meaningful and mutual beneficial interactions. The working group will bring together researchers with an interest in complementary aspects of trust, from both technology oriented disciplines and the field of law, social sciences and philosophy. In this way the working group will provide the common background necessary for advancing towards an in-depth understanding of the fundamental issues and challenges in the area of trust management in open systems.
The main membership will most likely be specialized researchers, both from universities and company laboratories. Government organizations and IFIP member societies and their members will be the main users of the results of the group.
Working Group 11.11 has a link to the area of other groups, both inside and outside IFIP and the group will seek actively for close cooperation with these groups.
The scope of the WG 11.11 are (non-exhaustive and non-exclusive):
- semantics and models for security and trust;
- trust management architectures, mechanisms and policies;
- trust in e-commerce, e-service, e-government;
- trust and privacy (link with WG 9.6 / 11.7);
- identity and trust management (link with WG 11.6);
- trust securing digital as well as physical assets; and
- social and legal aspects of trust (link with WG 9.6 / 11.7).
WG 11.11 is established as the major international trust management research and development community We aim to support all research into computational trus and trust management, including cross-disciplinary research, which addresses questions related to establishing trust, mediating trust or benefitting from trust in digital systems and online communities.
The goals of WB 11.11 are to:
- investigate the foundations and applications of security and trust in ICT;
- study the deep interplay between trust management and common security issues such as confidentiality, integrity and availability;
- identify and promote new areas of research connected with trust management, e.g. reputation, recommendation, collaboration, etc;
- provide a platform for presenting and discussing emerging ideas and trends.
The working group also provides a platform to investigate possibilities for defining a number of closely interacting research projects focusing on different aspects of trust management or introducing trust management into existing and emerging technologies, regulatory and legislative frameworks.
The main product of the working group is the annual working conference on Trust Management (IFIPTM).
The conference aims to:
- facilitate the cross-disciplinary investigation of fundamental issues underpinning computational trust models by bringing together expertise from technology oriented sciences, law, philosophy and social sciences;
- facilitate the emergence of widely acceptable trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications;
- facilitate the development of new paradigms in the area of dynamic open systems which effectively utilise computational trust models;
- facilitate the integration of new trust management paradigms and emerging architectures for Grid computing and Virtual Organisations;
- help the incorporation of trust management elements into existing standards.
The working group is also seeking to facilitate, support and sponsor other initiatives and events within the scope of WG 11.11.
Per IFIP rules, membership is open to attendees of the conference or associated events, with a three year expiry.
Further information about the working group can be found on the homepage www.ifiptm.org.
This section provides a list of officers of the working group, and a list of active members.
Current as of April 2023.
| Name | Affiliation | Position | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Damsgaard Jensen | Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark | Chair | 1 of 2 (October 2021 -- present) |
| Davide Ceolin | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, Netherlands | Vice Chair | 1 of 2 (October 2021 – present) |
| Tim Muller | University of Nottingham, UK | Vice Chair | 1 of 2 (October 2021 – present) |
| Anirban Basu | Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group, Japan | Secretary | 3 of unlimited (October 2021 – present) |
Current as of April 2023: 99 members.
| Name | Affiliation | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Anders Schlichtkrull | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Anirban Basu | University of Sussex and Hitachi, Ltd. | UK, Japan |
| Anna Squicciarini | Pennsylvania State University | USA |
| Anthony Ts Ho | University of Surrey | UK |
| Arianna Schuler Scott | University of Oxford | UK |
| Audun Josang | University of Oslo | Norway |
| Carmen Fernandes-Gago | University of Málaga | Spain |
| Chao Chen | Swinburne University | Australia |
| Chirag Modi | National Insitute of Technology Goa | India |
| Christian Damsgaard Jensen | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Christian Richthammer | University of Resenburg | Germany |
| Christophe Slim | Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) | France |
| Chunhua Su | University of Aizu | Japan |
| Chunpeng Ge | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China |
| Chunsheng Gu | Jiangsu University of Technology | China |
| Colombe De Montety | Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) | France |
| Davide Ceolin | Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica | Netherlands |
| Devesh Jinwala | National Insitute of Technology Surat | India |
| Dhiren Patel | National Insitute of Technology Surat | India |
| Dong Hao | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China |
| Ehud Gudes | Ben Gurion University | Israel |
| Elisa Bertino | Purdue University | USA |
| Enrique Garcia | SINTEF | Norway |
| Etienne Cartolano | Universidade de São Paulo | Brazil |
| Fabio Martinelli | Italian National Research Council | Italy |
| Farag Azzedin | King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals | Saudi Arabia |
| Hiren Patel | LDRP Institute of Technology and Research | India |
| Houda Labiod | Telecom Paris | France |
| Ian Wakeman | University of Sussex | UK |
| Isaac Agudo | University of Málaga | Spain |
| Isabella Hatak | Vienna University of Economics and Business | Austria |
| Jaideep Vaidya | Rutgers University | USA |
| Jan-Philipp Steghofer | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
| Jason Nurse | University of Kent | UK |
| Jiachen Shen | East China Normal University | China |
| Jian Xu | North Eastern University | China |
| Jianming Fu | Wuhan University | China |
| Jie Ji | Hangzhou Dianzi University | China |
| Jie Zhang | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| Jin Hee Cho | Virgnia Tech | USA |
| Jin Li | Guangzhou University | China |
| Jinbao Gao | Beijing Institute of Technology | China |
| Jing Sun | Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications | China |
| Jose Del Alamo | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid | Spain |
| Juyan Li | Heilongjiang University | China |
| Luca Longbo | Technical University of Dublin | Ireland |
| Manu Malek | Stevens Institute of Technology | USA |
| Marc Sel | Royal Holloway | UK |
| Masakatsu Nishigaki | Shizuoka University | Japan |
| Masaki Shimaoka | University of Tsukuba | Japan |
| Max Mulhausser | Technical University of Darmstadt | Germany |
| Mingwu Zhang | Hubei University of Technology | China |
| Mohamad Mahaini | University of Kent | UK |
| Mohammad Abdeen | The Islamic University of Madinah | Saudi Arabia |
| Natasha Dwyer | Victoria University | Australia |
| Nicola Dragoni | Danmarks Tekniske Universitet | Denmark |
| Nishant Doshi | Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University | India |
| Nurit Gal-Oz | Sapir Academic College | Israel |
| Pamela Briggs | University of Northumbria | UK |
| Pernul Guenther | University of Resenburg | Germany |
| Peter Hermann | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Norway |
| Peter Lewis | Ontario Tech University | Canada |
| Piotr Cofta | Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology (UTP) | Poland |
| Qikun Zhang | Zhengzhou University of Light Industry | China |
| Qin Li | Royal Holloway | UK |
| Rongmao Chen | K U Leuven | Belgium |
| Roy Ng | Ryerson University | Canada |
| Sam Afzal-Houshmand | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Sean Sirur | University of Oxford | UK |
| Sebastian Mödersheim | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Serif Bahtiyar | Boğaziçi University | Turkey |
| Sheikh Mahbub Habib | Technical University of Darmstadt and Continental AG | Germany |
| Shivakant Mishra | University of Colorado Boulder | USA |
| Shouhuai Xu | University of Colorado Colorado Springs | USA |
| Stephen Downes | National Research Council | Canada |
| Stephen Marsh | Ontario Tech University | Canada |
| Tanja Azderska | Jožef Stefan Institute | Slovenia |
| Teng Zhou | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautic | China |
| Thanassis Giannetsos | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
| Theo Dimitrakos | University of Kent and Huawei European Research Center | UK, Germany |
| Udai Pratap Rao | National Insitute of Technology Surat | India |
| Vijay Varadharajan | University of Newcastle | Australia |
| Wang Fat Lau | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Hong Kong SAR |
| Wanlun Ma | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | China |
| Wei Wang | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology | Saudi Arabia |
| Wenjuan Li | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong SAR |
| Xiang Cheng | Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics | China |
| Xiaofeng Wang | Shenzhen University | China |
| Xiaosong Zhang | Tangshan University | China |
| Yang Xiang | Xidian University | China |
| Yannis Stamatiou | Computer Technology Institute and Press | Greece |
| Yongsu Park | Hanyang University | South Korea |
| Yoshinobu Kawabe | Aichi Institute of Technology | Japan |
| Yu Sui | Guangdong Power Grid Corporation | China |
| Yu Wang | Guangzhou University | China |
| Yuduo Wu | Nankai University | China |
| Yuji Suga | Internet Initiative Japan | Japan |
| Zhe Xia | Wuhan University of Technology | China |
| Zhenfu Cao | East China Normal University | China |