Masterarbeit
Migrating The FIRE model into the Redecentralized Web
Completion
2024/07
Research Area
Students
Jyothipriya Bhuvanagiri
Advisers
Description
Today, the web as we know it has undergone a remarkable transformation, as it plays a significant role in everyday life. However, the current centralized web architecture poses inherent limitations, restricting users' control over their data, often stored centrally within specific applications or environments. In response to this growing concern, the decentralized web, a revolutionary paradigm, has emerged as a transformative solution, empowering users with enhanced data ownership and privacy. At the heart of this decentralized revolution lies the challenge of fostering trust among the diverse participants interacting within the distributed web.
The web applications must work with trusted data, decentralized web applications, on the other hand, work with data that is not hosted by it but is available on any decentralized knowledge graph or e.g. Solid pods. Therefore, such a web application must be able to search the Semantic Web and dynamically acquire linked data spontaneously. While data on the web might still be duplicated due to practical needs and responsive design, data must be synced in both directions for privacy and data control purposes. A decentralized web application will thus only sometimes take data from a decentralized data store, but very often dynamically at runtime. Hence, the applications must constantly make trust-aware decisions on whether they should process received data. FIRE as a trust model emerges as a promising decentralized web trust management candidate. Integrating such a comprehensive trust model is crucial for ensuring reliable and secure participant interactions and fostering widespread adoption of decentralized web technologies.
The primary objective of this research is to integrate features of FIRE into the decentralized web applications and establish a trust model for evaluating trust in decentralized systems in multi-agent systems. This research will draw upon the fundamental principles of the FIRE, which is well-suited to address the unique challenges and dynamic nature of decentralized environments.
The objective of this master thesis is to find an approach or combination of approaches to solve the previously mentioned problem in the context of migrating the existent FIRE trust model to the decentralized web. This particularly includes the state of the art regarding trust models. The demonstration of feasibility with an implementation demonstrator of the concept is part of this thesis as well as a suitable evaluation with exemplary use cases.
