A workshop at ISWC 2004

Deadline Extended

The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 23.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) from 7-11 November, 2004 in Hiroshima, Japan.

Brief Description

The issue of trust on the Semantic Web is one that has been gaining attention from a variety of groups. The spectrum of the topic is large - ranging from digital signatures and security to social network analysis. This workshop is designed to bring together the communities working on different aspects of trust, familiarize them with each others work, and to forge discussion on collaborative ways that the study of trust can be furthered.

Paper Submission

Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions should be made via email to trust@mindswap.org.

Topics

Some of the topics of interest to the workshop are

  • rule-based policies, contracts and business rules
  • natural-language and visual interfaces for policy languages
  • rules and ontologies for security, trust and privacy
  • digitally signed RDF
  • security requirements engineering
  • trust establishment and automated trust negotiation
  • decentralized trust infrastructures for semantic web and grid environments
  • trust metrics and models
  • trust and provenance
  • trust and reputation management and propagation
  • friends of a friend networks / FOAF
  • distributed computation of trust
  • security and trust for agents, peer-to-peer, grid and web services
  • case studies on security and trust applications