PeerTrust
Automated Trust Negotiation for Peers on the Semantic Web
In the PeerTrust project we are developing and investigating policy languages to describe trust and security
requirements on the Semantic Web. Such policies will be one component of a run-time system that can
negotiate to establish trust on the Semantic Web. The PeerTrust system uses guarded distributed logic programs as the basis
for a simple yet expressive policy and trust negotiation language, built upon the rule layer of the Semantic Web layer cake.

Collaborations
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
TrustBuilder
Project
- REWERSE Network
of Excellence
- IST/EU ELENA project
- Internet Security Research Lab at Brigham Young University,
TrustBuilder
Project
- The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI)
NOTE: The policy framework PeerTrust is not under development anymore. A new and more complete framework, Protune, was started from scratch end 2005. More information about Protune is available at http://www.L3S.de/protune/
Home Web Page at Sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/projects/peertrust/
Publications
- T. Leithead, W. Nejdl, D. Olmedilla, K. E. Seamons, M. Winslett, T. Yu, C. C. Zhang
How to Exploit Ontologies for Trust Negotiation
In Proc. of the Workshop on Trust, Security and Reputation on the Semantic Web in conjunction with the 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2004); Nov. 2004, Hiroshima, Japan
- S. Staab, B. Bhargava, L. Lilien, A. Rosenthal, M. Winslett, M. Sloman, T. S. Dillon, E. Chang, F. K. Hussain, W. Nejdl, D. Olmedilla, V. Kashyap
The Pudding of Trust
IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal, Vol. 19(5), pp. 74-88, Sep./Oct. 2004
- P. A. Bonatti, N. Shahmehri, C. Duma, D. Olmedilla, W. Nejdl, M. Baldoni, C. Baroglio, A. Martelli, V. Patti, P. Coraggio, G. Antoniou, J. Peer, N. E. Fuchs
Rule-based Policy Specification: State of the Art and Future Work
Project deliverable D1, Working Group I2, EU NoE REWERSE, Sep. 2004
- Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Marianne Winslett
PeerTrust: Automated Trust Negotiation for Peers on the
Semantic Web
In Proc. of the Workshop on Secure Data Management in a
Connected World (SDM'04) in conjunction with 30th International Conference on
Very Large
Data
Bases,
Aug.-Sep. 2004, Toronto, Canada
- Daniel Olmedilla, Rubén Lara, Axel Polleres,
Holger Lausen
Trust Negotiation for Semantic Web Services
In Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process
Composition in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web
Services, July. 2004, San Diego, California, USA
- Jim Basney, Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Von Welch, MarianneWinslett
Negotiation on the Grid
In Proc. of 2nd Workshop on Semantics in P2P and Grid
Computing at the Thirteenth International World Wide Web Conference,
May 2004, New York, USA
- Rita Gavriloaie,
Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Kent Seamons, Marianne Winslett
No Registration
Needed: How to Use Declarative Policies and Negotiation
to Access Sensitive
Resources on the Semantic Web
In Proc. of 1st European Semantic Web Symposium, May.
2004, Heraklion, Greece - Wolfgang Nejdl, Daniel Olmedilla, Marianne Winslett
PeerTrust: Automated Trust Negotiation
for Peers on the Semantic Web
Technical Report
Prototypes
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