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Coping with Poorly Understood Domains: the Example of Internet Trust

A. Basden, J. B. Evans, D. W. Chadwick, and A. Young

In Research and Development in Expert Systems, 1998, pages 182-196, December 1998 Presented at Expert Systems 98 conference, December 1998.

Abstract

The notion of trust, as required for secure operations over the Internet, is important for ascertaining the source of received messages. How can we measure the degree of trust in authenticating the source? Knowledge in the domain is not established, so knowledge engineering becomes knowledge generation rather than mere acquisition. Special techniques are required, and special features of KBS software become more important than in conventional domains. This paper generalizes from experience with Internet trust to discuss some techniques and software features that are important for poorly understood domains.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{2094,
author = {Basden, A. and Evans, J. B. and Chadwick, D. W. and Young, A.},
title = {{C}oping with {P}oorly {U}nderstood {D}omains: the {E}xample of {I}nternet {T}rust},
month = {December},
year = {1998},
pages = {182-196},
keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants},
note = {Presented at Expert Systems 98 conference, December 1998.},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1998/2094},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    booktitle = {Research and Development in Expert Systems, 1998},
    issue = {15},
}

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