Building and Management of Trust in Information Systems

Abstract

Thanks to the rapidly developing information and communication technologies, the complexity of networked organizations becomes very high, so the representation of their structure, the description of their operation, and their control needs new technologies and approaches. The availability of individuals independent from location and time means mobility, and that is an important attribute of today’s society. This mobility can be achieved by using different types of wireless networks such as wireless wide area networks (WWANs—GSM, GPRS, and UMTS), wireless local area networks (WLANs, such as WiFi 802.11b, 802.11a), and wireless personal area (or Pico) networks (WPAN—Bluetooth, IrDA2).