iTrust Summary

People have come to depend on information from the Internet and the Web and, in many aspects of their lives, now rely on the Internet to deliver that information. This research addresses the trustworthy distri bution and retrieval of information within a network, in particular the Internet. Specifically, it concerns the distribution of metadata and requests, matching of requests and metadata, and retrieval of information corresponding to the metadata. In the Internet today, this functionality is provided by centralized search engines and search indexes. The free flow of information through such centralized mechanisms depends on benign and unbiased administrators of those mechanisms. Unfortunately, the experience of history, and even of today, shows that we cannot depend on the administrators to remain benign and unbiased in the future. The existence of an alternative to centralized search, an effective distributed search, without centralized mechanisms and without centralized control, is an important assurance to the users of the Internet that a small group of individuals cannot prevent them from distributing their ideas and information and from retrieving ideas and information from others. The development of a trustworthy information distribution and retrieval network is essential for the NSF Trustworthy Computing Program.

 

Papers

1. A Distributed Ranking Algorithm for the iTrust Information Search and Retrieval System
   WEBIST 2013, Aachen Germany, May 2013
   Boyang Peng, Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Yung-Ting Chuang, Isaí Michel Lombera
2. Discovering Joining Nodes and Detecting Leaving Nodes in the iTrust Membership Protocol
   IMECS 2013, Hong Kong China, March 2013
   Yung-Ting Chuang, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser, Isaí Michel Lombera
   Best Paper Award
3. Mobile Decentralized Search and Retrieval using SMS and HTTP
   ACM MONET, ACM Mobile Networks and Applications Journal, Vol. 18.1, February 2013
   Isaí Michel Lombera, Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Yung-Ting Chuang
4. Decentralized Search and Retrieval for Mobile Networks using SMS
   WIMOB 2012, Barcelona Spain, October 2012
   Isaí Michel Lombera, Louise E. Moser, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Yung-Ting Chuang
5. Protecting the iTrust Information Retrieval Network against Malicious Attacks
   JCSE, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Vol.6 No. 3, September 2012
   Yung-Ting Chuang, Isaí Michel Lombera, P. Michael Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser
6. A Mobile Peer-to-Peer Search and Retrieval Service for Social Networks
   SERVICES/MS 2012, Honolulu Hawaii USA, 24-29 June 2012
   Isaí Michel Lombera, Louise E. Moser, Peter Michael Melliar-Smith, Yung-Ting Chuang
7. Declustering the iTrust Search and Retrieval Network to Increase Trustworthiness
   WEBIST 2012, Porto Portugal, April 2012
   C. M. Badger, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, I. Michel Lombera, Y.T. Chuang
8. Detecting and Defending against Malicious Attacks in the iTrust Information Retrieval Network
   ICOIN 2012, Bali Indonesia, 1-3 February 2012
   Yung-Ting Chuang, Isaí Michel Lombera, P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser
   Best Paper Award
9. iTrust: Trustworthy Information Publication, Search and Retrieval
   ICDCN 2012, Hong Kong China, 3-6 January 2012
   P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser, I. Michel Lombera, Y.T. Chuang
10. Decentralized Mobile Search and Retrieval Using SMS and HTTP to Support Social Change
    MobiCASE 2011, Santa Monica California USA, 24-27 October 2011
    Isaí Michel Lombera, Yung-Ting Chuang, L. E. Moser, and P. M. Melliar-Smith
11. Trustworthy Distributed Search over the Internet
    WORLDCOMP 2011, Las Vegas Nevada USA, 18-21 July 2011
    Yung-Ting Chuang, Isaí Michel Lombera, L. E. Moser, P.M. Melliar-Smith
12. Trustworthy Distribution and Retrieval of Information over HTTP and the Internet
    INTERNET 2011, Luxembourg City Luxembourg, 19-24 June 2011
    Isaí Michel Lombera, Yung-Ting Chuang, Peter Michael Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser

 

Presentations

• A Mobile Peer-to-Peer Search and Retrieval Service for Social Networks
  A presentation by Isaí Michel Lombera; Honolulu Hawaii USA, 26 June 2012
  
• Detecting and Defending against Malicious Attacks in the iTrust Information Retrieval Network
  A presentation by Yung-Ting Chuang; Bali Indonesia, 02 February 2012
  
• Decentralized Mobile Search and Retrieval Using SMS and HTTP to Support Social Change
  A presentation by Isaí Michel Lombera; Santa Monica, 25 October 2011
  
• Trustworthy Distributed Search and Retrieval over the Internet
  A presentation by Yung-Ting Chuang; Las Vegas, 18 July 2011
  
• Trustworthy Distribution and Retrieval of Information over HTTP and the Internet
  A presentation by Isaí Michel Lombera; Luxembourg, 20 June 2011
  
• Trustworthy Information and Retrieval
  A presentation by Michael Melliar-Smith
• Trustworthy Information Distribution and Retrieval
  Engineering Insights 2011
  Isaí Michel Lombera, Yung-Ting Chuang, P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser

 

People

• P. M. Melliar-Smith
• Louise E. Moser
• Yung-Ting Chuang
• Isaí Michel Lombera
• Andre Abrahamian
• Christopher Badger
• Jerry Peng
• Wei Dai

 

Contacts

{pmms, moser, ytchuang, imichel} @ ece.ucsb.edu