Pradeep K. Atrey & Bharat (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA) Bhargava 
Managing Trust in Cyberspace [PDF ebook] 

In distributed, open systems like cyberspace, where the behavior of autonomous agents is uncertain and can affect other agents” welfare, trust management is used to allow agents to determine what to expect about the behavior of other agents. The role of trust management is to maximize trust between the parties and thereby provide a basis for cooper