Network configuration plan

While collaborative network configuration plan activities impose complexities to trust management, we also see collaboration as (potentially) part of the solution to that problem. Trust communication is an inherently complex collaborative activity (to be carried out to support a more primary collaborative activity such as evacuation planning during a crisis). The approach, adopted in this paper, takes advantage of the close coupling among collaborative missions, information sharing, and trust. Our primary objective is to develop an approach for enabling semantic negotiation of trust within the context of collaborative activities. We see trust communication as a sub-process embedded

To design a computer network we note that computer networks are complex by definition. Their complexity can be attributed to the heterogeneous and distributed nature of the technologies adopted, protocols employed, devices used, applications supported, variability of operating conditions and performance requirements, not to mention the unpredictable interactions of all previously mentioned aspects. Hence computer networks stand as a typical example for software intensive complex systems.