Multiagent trust management of web services: the “asynchronous computing environment profile unification methodology” (acepum)

Abstract

Web services are considered as a major challenge for the information technology industry as they emerge from integration of several technologies adaptable within different architectures and platforms. Web Services are deployed within heterogeneous distributed environments; specifically B-2-B interactions are considered as critical-mission processes and services, the main goal for these processes is to provide a secured inter-organizational computing environment. Ion the web, we deploy web services on the web for the purpose of achieving reusability, interoperability, and standards utilization. Web services are based on interactions of peers where loosely coupled systems interact in anonymous computing environments. The environments of web services are considered more vulnerable to faults and incidents than tightly coupled services. In this paper; I introduce a token-based methodology which is utilized for the purpose of achieving trust between end points of communication. I introduce the Asynchronous Computing Environment Profile Unification Methodology (ACEPUM) as a vulnerability reduction methodology which audits the environment profile variables; this approach introduces several levels of trust management routines that addresses different aspects of security requirements.