CFP: Special Issue on Trust and Trust Management

Call for Papers

Special Issue on Trust and Trust Management

Guest Editors: Audun Jøsang (University of Oslo) Glenn Bewsell (University
of Wollongong)

Trust is a fundamental consideration for the growth and stability of markets
and communities because trust guides decisions about interactions between
humans and organizations. New forms of markets and communities are created
online, but the very nature of this online environment makes trust
management challenging. It is for example common to request services from a
website we have never heard of before, and from which we might never request
a service again in the future. Combined with perceptions of minimal or
non-existent law enforcement, participants in online markets and communities
are often vulnerable to many forms of fraud and deception.
Reliable perceptions of trust lead to successful in tera ctions and quality
online markets, whereas misplaced trust and misplaced distrust are damaging
to online interactions and e-commerce. To improve the reliability of trust
perceptions and decision making, there is a need to better understand the
dynamics of trust in relation to the technological, behavioral, legal and
cultural aspects of e-commerce.
This special issue welcomes articles with research contributions related to
online trust in e-commerce, and to trust management in general. This is a
broad field that e.g. covers: theoretical and practical aspects of trust
management; antecedents to trust; technologies that impact trust; and the
use of policy, process and technology to manage trust. Specific topics of
interest include but are not limited to:

* Semantics, interpretations and ontologies of trust
* Metrics for trust and reputation
* Trust and reputation systems; protocols and computational models
* Robustness of tr ust and reputation systems
* Impacts of technology on trust
* Costs and trade-offs for establishing and sustaining trust
* Identity, credentials and access management
* Authorization models and policies
* Security and trust
* Risk management and trust
* Decision making and trust
* Case studies for online trust
* Recommender systems and trust
* Community perspectives of online trust
* eGovernment and trust
* Novel perspectives on trust in e-commerce
* Business models and trust
* Trust based marketing
* Trust destruction, distrust and trust restoration

Submission:
Authors are invited to submit original research contributions in the
aforementioned areas. Manuscripts should conform to the journal format (see
http://www.jtaer.com/). All submissions will be reviewed according to the
journal peer-review policy. Accepted articles will be published in the
special issue on Trust and Trust Management of the Journal of Theor etical
and Applied Electronic Commerce Research (to appear in August 2010). Please
suggest title and abstract and submit a full manuscript with respect to the
deadlines given below to: josang@unik.no and/or gbewsell@uow.edu.au.

Important Dates:
Abstract submission: Jan 15, 2010
Full manuscript submission: February 15, 2010
Author notification: April 15, 2010
Camera ready version: May 31, 2010
Publication: August 15, 2010