A critical investigation of recall and precision as measures of retrieval system performance
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Guarantees for autonomy in cognitive agent architecture
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Effects of different interaction attitudes on a multi-agent system performance
MAAMAW '96 Proceedings of the 7th European workshop on Modelling autonomous agents in a multi-agent world : agents breaking away: agents breaking away
REGRET: reputation in gregarious societies
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Social trust: a cognitive approach
Trust and deception in virtual societies
Information Retrieval
Reputation and social network analysis in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Operational specification of a commitment-based agent communication language
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 2
LFCS '94 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Logical Foundations of Computer Science
Agent Capabilities: Extending BDI Theory
Proceedings of the Seventeenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Twelfth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Engagement and Cooperating in Motivated Agent Modelling
Proceedings of the First Australian Workshop on DAI: Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Architecture and Modelling
A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
ATAL '01 Revised Papers from the 8th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VIII
Detecting deception in reputation management
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Trust evaluation through relationship analysis
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On virtual agents that regulate each other's emotions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Configuration and control design model for an agent based Flexible Distributed System
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
A fuzzy attitude based bidding strategy in continuous double auctions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Modeling agents with a theory of mind: Theory--theory versus simulation theory
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Influence of FFM/NEO PI-R personality traits on the rational process of autonomous agents
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
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A critical aspect of open systems such as the Internet is the interactions amongst the component agents of the system. Often this interaction is organised around social principles, in that one agent may request the help of another, and in turn may make a commitment to assist another when requested. In this paper we investigate two measures of the social responsibility of an agent known as reliability and helpfulness. Intuitively, reliability measures how good an agent is at keeping its commitments, and helpfulness measures how willing an agent is to make a commitment, when requested for help. We discuss these notions in the context of FIPA protocols. It is important to note that these measures are dependent only on the messages exchanged between the agents, and do not make any assumptions about the internal organisation of the agents. This means that these measures are both applicable to any variety of software agent, and externally verifiable, i.e. able to be calculated by anyone with access to the messages exchanged.