The WWW and W of Computational Trust: What Where When and Who
- 10:00 18th November 2015 ( Michaelmas Term 2015 )Tony Hoare Room, Robert Hooke Building
Computational Trust examines the human phenomenon of trust as it applies to ‘technical’ fields, such as computer science, Ambent Intelligence, Distributed AI and more recently the Internet of Things. It also ties back the notion of trust reasoning in computational devices to their human counterparts, through soft security and Device Comfort, amongst other things. It’s present, at least in part or in passing, in reputation and recommendation systems, eCommerce, Juman aspects of security, persuasive technologies and other sociotechnical arenas. As it’s been a couple of decades since Computational Trust was born, it’s past time to look at the road to where we are now. This talk will examine, from my personal viewpoint and work, What Computational Trust is, Where it gets used, When it works, and Who it’s for (and Who uses it, not often the same thing!). We’ll touch on the basics, applications, newer areas that have grown from it (like Device Comfort), and current work that aims to examine the (re)applicability of Computational Trust to its roots in humanity.
Speaker bio
Steve Marsh is a trust scientist who works with the phenomenon of trust for computational systems. He is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology, University of Ontario Institute of Technology.His PhD (University of Stirling, 1994) is a seminal work that introduced the first formalisation of the phenomenon of trust (the concept of 'Computational Trust'), and applied it to Multi Agent Systems. As a milestone in trust research, it brought together disparate disciplines and attempted to make sense of a vital phenomenon in human and artificial societies, and is still widely referenced today. Steve's current work builds extensively on this model, applying it to context-adaptive mobile devices, protection of the user, and mobile device security and privacy.
His research interests include mobile device comfort, computational trust, trust management, regret and regret management, and socially adept technologies. He is Secretary of the IFIP Worgking Group (11.11) on Trust Management and the Canadian delegate to IFIP Technical Committee 11: Security and Privacy Protection in Information Processing Systems. He is an adjunct professor at UNB (Computer Science) and Carleton University (Systems and Computer Engineering and Cognitive Science). Steve's Google Scholar page is at http://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Qz73wh4AAAAJ. His personal website is http://www.stephenmarsh.ca.
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