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SUMMARY:Trust in Networks and Collaborating Networked Systems - John S. Ba
 ras (University of Maryland College Park)
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:We are in the age of networks and networked systems: communica
 tion\, transportation\, economic\, biological\, healthcare\, educational\,
  human\, social\, web-based\, etc. This evolution and reality have created
  unprecedented advances and are impacting every aspect of life and work. H
 owever\, many of these advances\, and resulting expanding markets\, are cr
 itically endangered by weaknesses in security\, integrity and trust. We in
 vestigate the complex and polymorphic subject of trust in these distribute
 d systems and describe a new framework using multiple partially ordered se
 mirings for analyzing reputation and trust establishment\, dynamics as wel
 l as “composite trust”. This framework is inspired by thinking of trus
 t problems as “path problems” in networks. Next we describe our work b
 ased on constrained coalitional games towards understanding the role of tr
 ust in collaboration and social networks. We describe several specific app
 lications of these methods in securing distributed inference systems\, sen
 sor networks for power grids\, wireless network routing protocols\, distri
 buted control systems. We close by describing challenges and future resear
 ch directions.\n\nThis is joint work with Tage Erlander Guest Professor (K
 TH\, Sweden) and Hans Fischer Senior Fellow (TUM\, Germany). \n\nIt you wo
 uld like to meet with Dr Baras please contact Tim Griffin (tgg@cam.ac.uk).
  \n\nBio: John S. Baras\, Lockheed Martin Chair in Systems Engineering. Di
 ploma in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical
  University of Athens\, Greece\, 1970\; M.S.\, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematic
 s from Harvard University 1971\, 1973. Since 1973\, faculty member in the 
 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department\, and in the Applied Mathem
 atics\, Statistics and Scientific Computation Program\, at the University 
 of Maryland College Park. Since 2000\, faculty member in the Fischell Depa
 rtment of Bioengineering. Since 2014\, faculty member in the Mechanical En
 gineering Department. Founding Director of the Institute for Systems Resea
 rch (ISR)\, 1985 to 1991.  Since 1991\, Founding Director of the Maryland 
 Center for Hybrid Networks (HYNET). Since 2013\, Guest Professor at the Ro
 yal Institute of Technology (KTH)\, Sweden. IEEE Life Fellow\, SIAM Fellow
 \, AAAS Fellow\, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engi
 neering Sciences (IVA). Received the 1980 George Axelby Prize from the IEE
 E Control Systems Society\, the 2006 Leonard Abraham Prize from the IEEE C
 ommunications Society\, the 2014 Tage Erlander Guest Professorship from th
 e Swedish Research Council\, and a three year (2014-2017) Senior Hans Fisc
 her Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study of the Technical Univ
 ersity of Munich\, Germany. Professor Baras' research interests include sy
 stems and control\, optimization\, communication networks\, signal process
 ing and understanding\, robotics\, computing systems and networks\, networ
 k security and trust and model-based systems engineering.\n \nEmail: baras
 @umd.edu    Web page: http://www.isr.umd.edu/~baras/\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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