Referral Web: combining social networks and collaborative filtering
Communications of the ACM
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Community-based service location
Communications of the ACM
Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
A scalable content-addressable network
Proceedings of the 2001 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Emergence and evolution of agent-based referral networks
Emergence and evolution of agent-based referral networks
Evaluation of Distributed and Centralized Agent Location Mechanisms
CIA '02 Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents VI
A comparative evaluation of agent location mechanisms in large scale MAS
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Privacy-preserving agent-based distributed data clustering
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Composition and evaluation of trustworthy web services
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
On the importance of relational concept knowledge in referral networks
Artificial Intelligence Review
A versatile approach to combining trust values for making binary decisions
iTrust'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Trust Management
Decentralized reputation-based trust for assessing agent reliability under aggregate feedback
Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies
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We view the Internet as supporting a peer-to-peer information system whose components provide services to one another. The services could involve serving static pages, processing queries, or carrying out transactions. We model service providers and consumers as autonomous agents. Centralized indexes of the web are replaced by individual indexes kept by the agents. The agents can cooperate with one another. An agent may provide a service to another agent or give a referral that leads it in the right direction. Importantly, the agents can judge the quality of a service obtained and adaptively select their neighbors in order to improve their local performance. Our approach enables us to address two important challenges. One, in contrast with traditional systems, finding trustworthy parties is nontrivial in open systems. Through referrals, agents can help one another find trustworthy parties. Two, recent work has studied the structure of the web as it happens to have emerged mostly through links on human-generated, static pages. Whereas existing work takes an after-the-fact look at web structure, we can study the emerging structure of an adaptive P2P system as it relates to the policies of the members.