Discovering the social network and trust relationship in a networked manufacturing environment

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to apply the trust relationship in a social network to support access control policy development in a NME. Considering that social relations and their trust feature between users in a NME are associated with the roles these users assume, we first classify the social network in a NME into three types. Then, an extended markup language (XML) schema is proposed as the access control mining format to support a unified representation of system logs. Based on the scheme, we discuss the factors affecting the trust intention, analyze the trust relation types, and propose trust intention calculation algorithms.