Yacine Anser, industrial Ph.D. student in collaboration with Orange Labs, will defend his Ph.D. thesis on March 18, 2024, at 2:00 p.m, in the room 33.1.19 at Cnam, 2 rue Conté, 75003 Paris, France.
PhD Title: Trust and Liability Management in Multi-Actor, Dynamic Environments with Hierarchical Delegation
PhD Title (French): Gestion de la confiance et de la responsabilité dans des environnements multi-acteurs, dynamiques et avec plusieurs niveaux de délégation de responsabilités
Abstract:
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered in a multitude of groundbreaking services, such as smart home automation, industrial IoT, and autonomous vehicles. These services heavily rely on key technologies like Cloud computing, Edge Computing, and architectures like microservices. This amalgamation forms the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum, a dynamic environment characterized by multi-domain collaboration, diverse stakeholders, and hierarchical delegation of responsibilities. In this complex setting, delineating each stakeholder’s responsibilities becomes challenging, leading to confusion, overlapping duties, and potential gaps in fulfilling obligations. Addressing this challenge, this thesis focuses on two aspects: a descriptor reflecting commitments along the supply chain and metrics evaluating the responsibility and trustworthiness concerning these commitments. We introduce TRAILS (sTakéholder Responsibility, AccountabIity and Liability deScriptor), a modular, generic descriptor bridging the gap in accounting for responsibility and accountability in existing models. Utilizing TRAILS, we propose three categories of metrics employing machine learning and neural network methods: Commitment Confidence Scores, Financial Exposure, and Commitment Trends. These metrics enable evaluation of service confidence, quantification of financial risks for providers, and trend analysis to predict future violations. These contributions are implemented within the framework of the LASM (Liability-Aware Security Manager), a modular tool aiming to integrate responsibility considerations into managing architectures involving multiple subcomponents provided by various service providers.
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