Trust management involves collecting useful information, evaluating trust relationships, making decisions about trust, monitoring and re-evaluating trust relationships, and automating the above process. Currently, trust management has become an important approach to improve system security and make system entities collaborate effectively and reliably. Trust management is an important part of cyberspace security, and it is a useful supplement and improvement to the cryptography-led security technology. It is a cutting-edge science across multiple disciplines and requires wide engineering background. 

Through the study of this course, you can fully understand trust, be familiar with typical trust models and trust evaluation algorithms, master the basic knowledge of trust management and trusted computing, and understand the application of trust management in emerging fields. This course lays a good theoretical and practical foundation for students to learn professional knowledge of cyberspace security and engage in related engineering and technical work. The students can get the necessary basic skills training and improve their comprehensive ability and overall quality.

This course is based on online course teaching, combined with homework, self-study, discussion, course practice, and other teaching methods and forms to complete the course teaching tasks. The course teaching aims to let students understand and master the main trust evaluation and management techniques, learn the professional knowledge of cyberspace security, engage in some technical tasks, and enable them to receive the necessary basic skills training. This course plays an important role in cultivating the ability of dialectical thinking, establishing a view of integrating theory with practice, and improving the ability to analyze problems, solve problems, and design systems.

The course aims to let students understand and master the main trust evaluation and management techniques, learn the professional knowledge of cyberspace security, engage in some technical tasks, and enable them to receive the necessary basic skills training. This course plays an important role in cultivating the ability of dialectical thinking, establishing a view of integrating theory with practice, and improving the ability to analyze problems, solve problems, and design systems.

Z. Yan, Trust Management in Mobile Environments – Usable and Autonomic Models, IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, 2013. Doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4765-7, ISBN13: 9781466647657, ISBN10: 1466647655, EISBN13: 9781466647664.