Trusted Computing Platforms: TCPA Technology in Context
by Siani Pearson, Boris Balacheff, Liqun Chen, David Plaquin, Graeme Proudler
Social Models of Trust
Social science uses two main approaches to modeling trust:
Temporal aspect: Trust has been considered to have a temporal aspect since Aristotle stressed that friendship cannot exist without trust and that trust needs time. In the twentieth century, Niklas Luhmann viewed trust as a representation of the future. This is similar to the belief we hold when reasoning inductively that after experiencing an historical pattern of behavior, similar behavior can be expected in the future. For example, even without knowing the laws of physics, we trust that the sun will shine tomorrow in the same way that we have seen in the past.
Risk aspect: Social scientists have strongly stressed that risk is a central aspect of trust. For example, ...
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