Trust Modelling and Management System for a Hyper-connected World of Internet of Everything

The Internet of Everything (IoE) applications require device to device communication with minimal or no input from users to complete transactions or whole processes. This requires the development of software agents that will act on behalf of the users. These software agents will need to make decisions on what communications are trustworthy enough to accept data from and transact business with. This is with the objective of making trust decision making transparent to the end users. There is therefore the need to model trust for IoE applications for the IoE devices to compute the appropriate trust values and make decisions based on the type and critical nature of the applications involved. This paper models the concept of trust in the context of IoE applications and designs a trust management system for it.