A Faraday Partnership

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• A Faraday Partnership

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What is a Faraday?

• Faraday Partnerships
• Strengthen the development and exploitation of
  technology within the UK by stimulating better
  coherence between researchers and new product
  developers in industry and academia through the
  involvement of intermediate organisations

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What the sponsors say

• Foresight ICM Panel
• Trust is essential to emerging markets
• The technical issues in implementing e-commerce
  are now largely solved However, there are
  significant outstanding issues which are
  political and regulatory One issue which does
  remain in the technical arena is trust management
• Electronic Commerce Task Force - Smoke on the
  Water. A Fire in the Sky
• Trust is essential to success in the online
  world. Increasingly it will be underpinned not by
  governments but by commercial organisations...
• E-Minister, Patricia Hewitt, welcoming Better
  Regulations Task Force's report on e-commerce, 14
  December 2000
• Over the last year there has been a surge in
  businesses getting on-line. However, while the
  results are promising, relatively few are
  exploiting the full power of e-commerce and
  consumers still lack confidence in buying on-line
• Better Regulation Task Force, Dec.2000
• Consumers need to trust e-transactions before
  they will engage in them

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Vision

• Trusted e-services
• To facilitate the evolution of valued dependable,
  secure and reliable e-Services by identifying and
  tackling those issues that are causing concern
  about trustworthiness.

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Financial Support

• DTI - 1.2M over 3 years ( 2 years extension)
• TT
• Clubs
• Infrastructure
• EPSRC - 1M over 4 years
• Research grants
• 12 Case studentships
• Faraday Associates - (Post Grad Training, PTPs)
• Partners - Contributions in cash or kind
• Additional bids for further public funds
• Self financing in the longer-term

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The Partnership

• Co-ordinators
• King's College London and W3C UK Office
• directed by a business plan
• controlled by the Partnership Board
• advised by an Advisory Board
• Core Partners
• ICL, HP, Baltimore Technologies, ...
• Kings, Imperial, Open University, RAL, ...
• contribute significant value to the partnership
• participate in RD, staff exchanges, pilot
  projects etc.
• form the Board

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Affiliates Associates

• Affiliate Members
• targeted at SMEs
• share the partnerships mutual interest
• exercise influence through a two way information
  flow
• Associate Members
• one way information flow
• receive documents etc.
• attend events, courses, ...
• modest subscription plus fees

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Business Support

• Business Support Partners
• intermediaries between the Partnership and
  business or technological sectors
• Undertake technology transfer and translation
• Initially
• W3C UK Office
• ICSA (International Centre for Security Analysis
  )
• INCOSE (International Council on Systems
  Engineering )

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Activities

• Partnership Ethic
• share problems,
• promote two-way training
• collaborate in RD,
• seek consensus solutions
• share ownership of the results
• Active Flows
• People
• Technology
• Concepts
• Post-Graduate and other Training

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Technology Translation

• Information synthesis
• Staff exchanges
• Training and awareness events courses
• Formal courses
• Trusted Internet Systems need for
  technically-literate managers, rather than
  management-literate technicians
• Legal Knowledge Engineering train both
  technically literate legal experts and legally
  literate software and knowledge engineers
• Distance learning resources
• Demonstration projects eg. pilots
• Facilitating sectoral Club(s)
• Interfacing to other bodies
• Representation - Working Groups Standardisation
  Groups

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Publicity andPublic Relations

• Activity Reports
• Flyers etc.
• Presentations at Trade and Academic events
• Partnership events
• Presentations at potential new member sites
• (including web-casting)
• Interfaces
• Academic Papers

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Research

• to enhance e-services by providing the means for
  trust analysis and establishment
• This involves
• incorporating trust elements in the development
  path of systems that support e-services and
• integrating trust management elements in the
  deployment of services
• We assume the usability of existing enabling
  technologies and services (Cryptography, Third
  party certification, ...)

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Working Definition TRUST

• the measured belief in the competence of an
  entity to act dependably, securely and reliably
  in a specified context
• measured belief in the competence implies
• measurable, possibly quantitative, property
• dependably,securely and reliably implies
• assessment of risk
• context implies
• the ability to tailor solutions and assess risk
  for particular (permanent or one-time) services

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Research Challenges

• The identification and classification of models
  of trust for e-Services.
• The elicitation of trust requirements from
  service goals.
• The articulation of trust in a notation that is
  usable by all stakeholders but is also amenable
  to automated analysis and reasoning.

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Research Challenges

• The modelling of legal issues, especially those
  concerning the status of electronic agents as
  participants in the process of contract
  formation.
• The embodiment of trust elements in contract
  negotiation, execution monitoring, re-negotiation
  and arbitration.
• Detecting, capturing and reasoning about trust
  and deception in the presence of conflicts and
  uncertainty.

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RD Modes

• Joint research involving university staff and
  business partner staff (ESPRIT/LINK style).
• Industry supported RAs within University
• Visiting Fellowships for business partners at the
  University partners
• Case supported student sharing time between
  Industry and University