Social Trust is a wiki that attempts to map the exploration of links between Human Trust and what we call Computational (or Artificial) Trust.
Human Trust is the stuff of society, the basic substance people use every day to live their lives, making decisions as different as who to loan money to or which babysitter to use (or any!).
Computational Trust is our name for the substance that artificial systems, such as some websites, formal models, or ubiquitous technologies, may use in helping make decisions about, for instance, who to buy from (on eBay, for example, or what products to buy (such as Amazon's ratings system). It can help artificial ad hoc networks route information, or people find potential friends. It can help systems make security decisions, and it might help agents decide who or what to share information with.
To us, there are obvious links between Human Trust and Computational Trust, not least in some of the ways either can be used. But, there are significant differences too. On this wiki, we want to explore the similarities, the differences, and the reasons and uses for each.
Most importantly, this site is the basis for the proposed SocialTrust set of workshop. For more information see