A Trust-Driven Online Evolution Model for Internetware

Internetware is an emerging software model in the open network environment, which is built upon the coordination of heterogeneous and autonomous software entities in an open coordinated environment. Due to the uncontrollable and uncertain nature of the internet, developing an effective method to ensure the trustworthiness of internetwares is one of the most difficult technical problems. To address this issue, a trust-driven model is proposed. In this model, software entities are regarded as the basic objects to be managed, and a flexible internetware architecture is built by using the method of trust alliance, which ensures not only the model´s internal awareness ability, but also the overall early warning and defensive capabilities. At the same time, to satisfy the evolution requirements, extensible functional units and dynamic strategy sets are designed. This design enables the model to be more adaptable and evolvable over time.