Trust evaluation in cloud manufacturing environment

Abstract

As a new manufacturing paradigm, cloud manufacturing transforms the traditional manufacturing business model, in which distributed resources belonged to different enterprises are encapsulated into cloud services. Clients can use cloud services according to their requirements, viz., clients can build up their own ondemand production service networks. However, it is quite difficult for clients to select reliable and high-quality service nodes to organize the production service network because of the existence of malicious, fake, untrue, and dynamic service nodes in the cloud manufacturing environment. The trustworthy cloud manufacturing environment is a prerequisite to implementation of cloud manufacturing. The reliable evaluation for trust works as a compass for building the trustworthy cloud manufacturing environment. In this paper, the trust measurement is discussed in cloud manufacturing environment and the trustworthy environment will be built up with this evaluation mechanism. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.