Trust and Reputation Systems for Autonomic Computing

1 Research Collaborator position
(Deadline February 28th, 2013 12:00 )
Fields
Trust, Reputation, Autonomic Computing, Formal Methods.
Activity
The candidate must investigate the development of a framework for modelling, implementing and evaluating trust and reputation systems, possibly based on a probabilistic trust approach. The framework should be based on tuple-based coordination mechanism that allow to program network-aware applications.
Formal requirements
Possession of a four or five years degree in a related field. Excellent knowledge of English, both written and spoken.
Specific requirements
The candidate must have a strong background on information theory, trust and reputation systems, security, network-aware programming, and tuples-space coordination languages, witnessed by a discrete publication record in those topics. Familiarity with the field of self-autonomic computing, architectural patterns for adaptive systems, and experience in European projects are preferable.
Project
Trust and Reputation Systems for Autonomic Computing. In open and autonomic systems where peers are likely to found themselves disconnected from their preferred security infrastructures, the only form of trust possibly available to users might rest upon forms of reputation, i.e. a collective measure of trustworthiness computed on the basis of ratings from members of the community. The existence of many reputation systems with remarkable differences calls for frameworks for modeling, analyzing, implementing and comparing them. This project will tackle this problem through the development of a solid foundational framework. On the one hand, it will permit to formally model different reputation systems and reasoning on them. On the other hand, the considered reputation models will be implemented in an appropriate networked execution environment in order to assess their performances. The project will investigate the integration of different reputation models into autonomic systems to manage information coming from the (possibly unknown) execution environment.
Gross amount
€ 18.500,00 a year.
Duration
1 year.
Job Research Area: 
CSA
Job Research Unit: 
SysMA
Job Contract Type: 
Assegno di ricerca
Full call
First meeting of the Selection Committee
February 28th, 2013
Second meeting of the Selection Committee
March 6th, 2013 from 11.30 am in Piazza San Ponziano, 6 - Lucca
Preliminary shortlist
Preliminary shortlist
Final ranking
Final ranking

Application

Apply ONLINE only.
Before starting prepare the application attachments and information as listed below.

Info

  • Personal info and contact info (compulsory)
  • Number of your Identity Document (Passport or Identity Card) (compulsory)
  • University degree and ongoing PhD (compulsory)

Attachments

  • Your CV in English (compulsory)