Trustworthy context-dependent services

Abstract

With the wide popularity of Cloud Computing, Service-oriented Computing is becoming the de-facto approach for the development of distributed systems. This has introduced the issue of trustworthiness with respect to the services being provided. Service Requesters are provided with a wide range of services that they can select from. Usually the service requester compare between these services according to their cost and quality. One essential part of the quality of a service is the trustworthiness properties of such services. Traditional service models focuses on service functionalities and cost when defining services. This paper introduces a new service model that extends traditional service models to support trustworthiness properties.