The Second International Conference on Trust Management took place at St. Anne's College, Oxford, UK, from 29th March to 1st April 2004. Building on the success of the First International Conference on Trust Management, which took place in Crete in May 2003| the second conference aimed to attract a critical mass of experts from industry, government and academia with a keen interest in the area of trust management.

The Conference aims were:

• To facilitate the cross-disciplinary investigation of fundamental issues underpinning computational trust models by bringing together expertise from technology oriented sciences, law, philosophy and social sciences.
• To facilitate the emergence of widely acceptable trust management processes for dynamic open systems and applications.
• To facilitate the development of new paradigms in the area of dynamic open systems which effectively utilise computational trust models.
• To facilitate the integration of new trust management paradigms and emerging architectures for Grid computing and Virtual Organisations.
• To help the incorporation of trust management elements in existing standards.