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In the early days of Internet, trust was one of the drivers that led to a self-reinforcing cycle of largely beneficial socio-economic activity, facilitating distribution, sharing and collaboration. This situation is different today, due to information asymmetry between the stakeholders which is the major reason among others, why trust in Internet-based applications is eroding.

The EU-funded OPTET project (7th Framework Program, Grant agreement no: 317631) aims to substantially increase the trust and confidence in Internet-based systems, applications and services. To achieve this goal, OPTET follows an integrated approach by considering the full life-cycle of such complex systems; starting from the socio-economic drivers of trust, SW engineering methodologies and technologies that enable evidence-based trustworthiness evaluation will be developed, as well as, processes to effectively manage the trustworthiness of these systems at run-time.

The potential of the OPTET results will be demonstrated and evaluated in the context of two operational use cases: one in the domain of Cyber Crisis Management (see Figure) and one in the domain of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). By re-using the results of other projects, such as FI-WARE (www.fi-ware.eu/), OPTET will provide a powerful foundation for designing and developing trustworthy systems, services and applications for the Future Internet.

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In OPTET AUEB will:
  • Analyse the economic basis for trust, by investigating the economic motives of actors, fanned by the existing information asymmetries, in the most probable value networks.
  • Analyse the economic basis for trust, by investigating the economic motives of actors, fanned by the existing information asymmetries, in the most probable value networks.
  • Investigate how economic measures (e.g. payment of incentives) can contribute to trust and trustworthiness balancing in the Future Internet
  • Contribute in the specification of trustworthy SW engineering techniques by considering a wide range of trustworthiness metrics.
  • Analyse trustworthiness by considering socio-economic interaction and risk models and provide a set of techniques and prototypical tools to allow for a system's end-to-end trustworthiness evaluation.
  • Create a set of business processes for the management of trust and its maintenance in the face of compromising activities using a graded set of mitigation actions.

Publications

  • Michalis Kanakakis, Shenja van der Graaf, Costas Kalogiros, Wim Vanobberghen. “Computing trust levels based on user's personality and observed system trustworthiness”. TRUST 2015, Heraclion, Greece. [pdf]
  • Nazila Gol Mohammadi, Torsten Bandyszak, Micha Moffie, Abigail Goldsteen, Thorsten Weyer, Costas Kalogiros, Bassem Nasser, Mike Surridge. “Combining Risk-Management and Computational Approaches for Trustworthiness Evaluation of Socio-Technical Systems”. CAISE 2015 Forum. [pdf]
  • Michalis Kanakakis, Shenja van der Graaf, Costas Kalogiros, Wim Vanobberghen. “Towards Market Efficiency Using a Personalised Trust Computational Model”. submitted to Telecommunications Policy journal (under review).
  • Nazila Gol Mohammadi, Torsten Bandyszak, Thorsten Weyer, Costas Kalogiros, Michalis Kanakakis. “A Framework for Evaluating the End-to-End Trustworthiness”. 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Recent Advances of Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications). [pdf]
  • Shenja van der Graaf, Wim Vanobberghen, Michalis Kanakakis, Costas Kalogiros. “Usable trust: Grasping trust dynamics for online security as a service”. in Proceedings of the 17th Conference HCI 2015, Los Angeles, USA. [pdf]
  • Costas Kalogiros, Michalis Kanakakis, Shenja Van der Graaf, Wim Vanobberghen. “Profit-maximizing trustworthiness level of composite systems”. in Proceedings of the 17th Conference HCI 2015, Los Angeles, USA. [pdf]
  • Nazila Gol Mohammadi, Torsten Bandyszak, Micha Moffie, Xiaoyu Chen, Thorsten Weyer, Costas Kalogiros, Bassem Nasser, Mike Surridge. “Maintaining Trustworthiness of Socio-Technical Systems at Run-Time. ”. 11th International Conference on Trust, Privacy & Security in Digital Business TrustBus 2014, Sept 2014. [pdf]
  • M. Seufert, G. Darzanos, I. Papafili, R. Lapacz, V. Burger, T. Hossfeld. “Socially-Aware Traffic Management”. to be published in Social Informatics: The Social Impact of Interactions between Humans and IT, Springer Proceedings in Complexity, Zweig, K., Neuser, W., Pipek, V., Rohde, M., Scholtes, I. (Eds.), ISBN 978-3-319-09377-2, October, 14, 2014. [pdf]

Presentations

  • Costas Kalogiros and Michalis Kanakakis. “Contribution of AUEB to OPTET”. Kick off meeting presentation, Paris November 2012.[pdf]
  • Costas Kalogiros and Michalis Kanakakis. “OPTET DELFT PLENARY MEETING”. Delft 2013.[pdf]