The Z notation: a reference manual
The Z notation: a reference manual
Understanding agent systems
MAAMAW '92 Selected papers from the 4th European Workshop on on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, Artificial Social Systems
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Coalition formation through motivation and trust
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
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Cooperation is the single most fundamental characteristic of multi-agent systems, and much work has been done on studying the various aspects involved, from general models of the overall structure of cooperation to detailed analyses of specific components. In our work, we aim to do both--we provide a general model and instantiate each stage in that model.We take the notions of trust and motivation to be fundamental to engendering successful cooperation between autonomous entities, and our model of cooperation accounts for the important roles played by these concepts. This paper focuses in particular on the details of how, based on trust, an agent chooses and keeps track of which agents it may use to assist in the performance of actions that make up a multi-agent plan, and how that information can be used in actually soliciting the assistance.