The role of the trust intermediary in the information and knowledge society

Abstract

The evolution of the Internet encourages us to think that universal and pervasive access is going to be possible in the near future, from the technological point of view. However there are many other problems that we have to address before, in order to bring the Internet to the desired state of an Information and Knowledge Society for all. The incredible widening of possible users is also determining problems for personalization of services. Adaptive interfaces represent one of the solutions, but they need to backed-up by an adequate network architecture. This paper describes and analyses this conceptual architecture. © Springer-Verlag 2004.