Service levels, Security, and Trust

By Florian Marienfeld, Edzard Höfig, Michele Bezzi, Matthias Flügge, Jonas Pattberg, Gabriel Serme, Achim D. Brucker, Philip Robinson, Stephen Dawson, and Wolfgang Theilmann.

This chapter covers the scientific background for the Service Level Module of the Unified Service Description Language (USDL). In addition to general service level concepts, we expand on two specific service level fields: security and trust. For that end we first review the state of the art in service level modeling, then we explain the design of the Service Level Module and position it among the rest of USDL. For security, two possible perspectives, a high level business view and a low level engineering approach, are introduced. With regards to trust, USDL is suitable to specify how a service can be rated by its consumers and to ensure that ratings of competing services are comparable, and hence to determine trustworthiness. Additionally, we present a description of non-security-related elements that can be exploited for trust estimation.

Please cite this work as follows:
F. Marienfeld et al., “Service levels, security, and trust,” in Handbook of service description: USDL and its methods, A. Barros and D. Oberle, Eds. New York, NY, USA: Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 295–326. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_12. Author copy: http://logicalhacking.com/publications/marienfeld.ea-usdl-security-2012/

BibTeX
@InCollection{ marienfeld.ea:usdl-security:2012,
  author    = {Florian Marienfeld and Edzard H{\"o}fig and Michele Bezzi and
               Matthias Fl{\"u}gge and Jonas Pattberg and Gabriel Serme and
               Achim D. Brucker and Philip Robinson and Stephen Dawson and
               Wolfgang Theilmann},
  editor    = {Alistair Barros and Daniel Oberle},
  booktitle = {Handbook of Service Description: {USDL} and its Methods},
  title     = {Service levels, Security, and Trust},
  chapter   = {12},
  isbn      = {978-1-4614-1864-1},
  pages     = {295--326},
  publisher = {Springer-Verlag },
  address   = {New York, NY, USA },
  year      = {2012},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-1-4614-1864-1_12},
  areas     = {security, software},
  abstract  = {This chapter covers the scientific background for the Service
               Level Module of the Unified Service Description Language
               (USDL). In addition to general service level concepts, we
               expand on two specific service level fields: security and
               trust. For that end we first review the state of the art in
               service level modeling, then we explain the design of the
               Service Level Module and position it among the rest of USDL.
               For security, two possible perspectives, a high level business
               view and a low level engineering approach, are introduced.
               With regards to trust, USDL is suitable to specify how a
               service can be rated by its consumers and to ensure that
               ratings of competing services are comparable, and hence to
               determine trustworthiness. Additionally, we present a
               description of non-security-related elements that can be
               exploited for trust estimation.},
  note      = {Author copy: \url{http://logicalhacking.com/publications/marienfeld.ea-usdl-security-2012/}},
}