IEEE Internet Computing arrived.

Yay. It looks like they spelled our names correctly!

Our article An Architectural Approach for Decentralized Trust Management is in the current issue of IEEE Internet Computing on pages 16-23. This article is an introduction to PACE which is a joint work with Girish Suryanarayana.

Here's the abstract for this paper:

To guard against malicious peers, peer-to-peer applications must
incorporate suitable trust mechanisms. Current decentralized
trust-management research focuses mainly on producing trust models and
algorithms, whereas the actual composition of trust models into real
applications has been largely unexplored.  The practical architectural
approach for composing egocentric trust (Pace) provides detailed design
guidance on where and how developers can incorporate trust models into
decentralized applications. In addition, Pace's guiding principles
promote countermeasures against threats to decentralized systems.
Several prototypes demonstrate the approach's use and feasibility.

You can find out lots more about PACE on our new website. If you have an IEEE subscription, you should be able to read this article. (If not, get one!)

I should also mention the efforts of Scott Hendrickson, Mamadou Diallo, and, of course, our advisor, Richard Taylor.

We have some more papers in the pipeline that we're optimistic about as well.

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