Trust Management in the Internet of Everything

TL;DR

This paper explores trust management in the Internet of Everything, emphasizing its importance in ensuring safe interactions among humans, data, and autonomous digital agents within complex digital ecosystems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of trust management concepts and discusses how trust can be leveraged for security and safety in autonomous digital environments.

Findings

Trust management is crucial for safe human-machine interactions.

Trust governance can trigger auto-immune responses against untrusted agents.

The paper offers a foundational understanding for implementing trust in digital ecosystems.

Abstract

Digitalization is leading us towards a future where people, processes, data and things are not only interacting with each other, but might start forming societies on their own. In these dynamic systems enhanced by artificial intelligence, trust management on the level of human-to-machine as well as machine-to-machine interaction becomes an essential ingredient in supervising safe and secure progress of our digitalized future. This tutorial paper discusses the essential elements of trust management in complex digital ecosystems, guiding the reader through the definitions and core concepts of trust management. Furthermore, it explains how trust-building can be leveraged to support people in safe interaction with other (possibly autonomous) digital agents, as trust governance may allow the ecosystem to trigger an auto-immune response towards untrusted digital agents, protecting human safety.