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5 Trust in ICT

Trust-worthiness Attributes Description
The ability of the system to be in a state to perform adequately at a
given instant of time within a given time interval.
Availability Availability might be measured with the amount of capacity of the
trustee to cooperate or help the trustor. The limit of the cooperation
or benevolence might be restricted by the availability of the trustee.

Working or acting together willingly for a common purpose
or benefit.
The number of interactions between entities that have been held in
positive manner. For example, in communication networks, packet
Cooperation dropping or forwarding behaviour is used to estimate cooperative
behaviour of a node. In information networks, whether sharing
information or not would reflect an aspect of cooperative
behaviours. In social networks, prompt and/or frequent email replies
can be regarded as cooperative behaviour.

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