A working definition of trust for Internet applications, and
a survey of trust management schemes for such applications
may be found in [12].
In most of the literature, reputation management is regarded
as part of trust management. Further, the terms trust
management and trust establishment are also interchangeably
used. To clarify these two terms, according to Aivaloglou et
al. [36], trust establishment is a process to deal with the
representation, evaluation, maintenance, and distribution of
trust among nodes.
Trust management deals with problems such as the formulation
of evaluation rules and policies, representation of trust
evidence, and evaluation and management of trust relationships
among nodes. As Figure 6 explains, trust establishment
is one of several trust management tasks.