Plenary Lecture

Managing Trust in Services Oriented Architectures

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Denis Trcek
Laboratory for e-media, head
Faculty of Computer and Information Science
University of Ljubljana
Trzaska c. 25, 1000 Ljubljana, SLOVENIA / EU
Tel.: +386 1 4768 918
Fax: +386 1 4264 647
e-mail: denis.trcek@fri.uni-lj.si
http://www2.arnes.si/~dtrcek/

Abstract: Trust management is turning out as one of essential issues for supporting users in contemporary services oriented architectures. Some of approaches address trust by actually focusing on related issues, typically security, while the rest of approaches do address trust in its core. However, there are still quite some open issues that need to be resolved.

This lecture will present main methodologies in this area, their strong and weak points, current trends, and the latest discoveries that are essential for computerized trust management, which should be threated through a socio-cognitive perspective.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:

• PhD in the field of communications security, received in 1995 from University of Ljubljana, Slovenia / EU.
• Assoc. Prof., courses on e-business at Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Ljubljana, courses on computer communications and IS security at the University of Primorska.
• 15 years involved in computer communications, IT and IS, computer communications, security, e-business.
• Author of sci. monograph Managing IS Security and Privacy, published by renowned publisher Springer in 2006.
• Invited speaker at PKI Invitational Workshop, organized by US Security Information Program Management Office, NIST and MITRE Corp., September 1995, Washington D.C.
• Involved in EU projects (also as a national coordinator) COST 225, COST 330, COST 263, NetLINK CEE.
• Establishement of the first IP connection and its manageme- nt in 1991. One of the key persons that contributed to esta- blishement of the Slovene Academic Research Network ARNES.
• Project leader for user security policy for internet banking services of the biggest Slovene bank NLB, project leader for IS implementation for the Slovene National Gallery, consultant for security architecture of a nation wide project of smart-card based health care information infrastructure (the first nation-wide implemented project of that kind in the world).
• 100+ items in bibliography (including journals with SCI JCR impact factor / WoS).
• 30 published communications (scientific conferences like IEEE, IFIP, Internet Society, US National Information Systems Security Conference...).
• Contributor to 3 scientific books, published by Springer Verlag, John Willey and Idea Group Publishers Inc., author of 2 university textbooks.
• Inventor of a crypto-protocol for hash functions based authentication and key exchange (patent granted in 2005).
• Editorial board member of the International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, 2004 - 2005.
• Member of program committees of IASTED Software Engineering 05, 06 and 07, Complex Systems in e-Business / CSeB 04 & 05, Workshop on Applications of Wireless Communications - WAWC04 (scientific conferences).
• Regular reviewer for high ranking scientific journals pub- lished by Elsevier, IEEE, etc.
• Member of IEEE, IASTED Technical Committee on Parallel and Distributing Computing and Systems, and System Dynamics Se- curity SIG.