Abstract:
Trust is one of the most fuzzy, dynamic and complex concepts in
both social and business relationships. The difficulty in measuring Trust and
predicting Trustworthiness in service-orientednetwork environments leads to
many questions. These include issues such as how to measure the willingness
and capability of individuals in the Trust dynamic and how to assign a concrete
level of Trust to an individual or Agent. In this paper, we analyze the fuzzy,
dynamic and complex nature of Trust.
The dynamic nature of Trust creates the biggest challenge in measuring
Trust and predicting Trustworthiness. In order to develop a Trustworthiness
Measure and Prediction Method, we first need to understand what we can
actually measurein a Trust Relationship.
