A distributed agent-based reputation framework enhancing trust in e-commerce

  • Authors:
  • Anna Gutowska;Kamal Bechkoum

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK;University of Derby, Derby, UK

  • Venue:
  • ASC '07 Proceedings of The Eleventh IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Trust and reputation systems have recently come into the picture for the virtual environment to offer an online user a decision support mechanism. Many of them are agent-based as software agents are a promising paradigm for open, distributed marketplaces. This paper considers how to make a distributed agent-based reputation mechanism, which extends the existing frameworks based on information about past behaviour, with other aspects affecting online trust, taken from the Trust Taxonomy [10], such as existence of control mechanisms and supporting organisations, security and privacy strategies, technology and information based factors as well as interaction.