Trust Management: 4th International Conference: iTrust 2006

The proceedings contain 37 papers. The topics discussed include: why we need a non-reductionist approach to trust; dynamic trust federation in grids; being trusted in a social network: trust as relational capital; a requirements-driven trust framework for secure interoperation in open environments; normative structures in trust management; gathering experience in trust-based interactions; multilateral decisions for collaborative defense against unsolicited bulk e-mail; generating predictive movie recommendations from trust in social networks; temporal logic-based specification and verification of trust models; modelling trade and trust across cultures; trust-based route selection in dynamic source routing; implementing credential networks; exploring different types of trust propagation; a versatile approach to combining trust values for making binary decisions; and virtual fingerprinting as a foundation for reputation in open systems.