Section: New Results

Towards Trust-Aware and Self-Adaptive Systems

The dynamic conditions under which Future Internet (FI) applications must execute call for self-adaptive software to cope with unforeseeable changes in the application environment. Software engineering currently provides frameworks to develop reasoning engines that support the runtime adaptation of distributed, heterogeneous applications. However, these frameworks have very limited support to address security concerns of these application, hindering their usage for FI scenarios. We address this challenge by enhancing self-adaptive systems with the concepts of trust and reputation [58] . Trust improves decision-making processes under risk and uncertainty, in turn improving security of self-adaptive FI applications.