IEEE Computer seeks articles for a December 2008 special issue on trust management in Web service environments.
A key challenge for the envisioned service Web, where services are considered as first-class objects, is to provide a trusted framework for enabling composition and selection of Web services in a large, highly volatile, and dynamic environment. The intentional lack of any global monitoring system, while undeniably desirable, has also exacerbated the problem of trust management in Web service environments. The inherently open and unpredictable nature of Web service environments means that traditional approaches are of little help in providing a framework for interactions. This special issue of Computer will cover the core challenges and solutions to enabling trust in Web service environments. Topics of interest include trust models and metrics, bootstrapping trust among Web services, trust tampering detection and prevention, trust in Web service standards, agent- and reputation-based trust management, and case studies for trust management among Web services.
Authors should present a proof of concept for any novel technique and discuss the significance and applicability of their proposed architecture or system. All papers are subject to expert peer review.
Direct inquiries to the guest editors:
Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, bertino@cs.purdue.edu,
or Athman Bouguettaya, Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organization, athman.bouguettaya@csiro.au.
Paper submissions are due by 1 June.
Complete submission instructions are available at:
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/computer/content/author.html
