A reputation-based model for semi-competitive multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Barouni Foued;Daoud Ait-Kadi;Sehl Mellouli;Angel Ruiz

  • Affiliations:
  • Departement d;informatique et de genie logiciel, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, 1065, av. de la Medecine Universite Laval, Quebec (Quebec) G1V 0A6, Canada.;Departement de genie mecanique, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, 1065, av. de la Medecine Universite Laval, Quebec (Quebec) G1V 0A6, Canada.;Departement des systemes d

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In an e-business application, an agent chooses its partners according to their reputations while maximising its utility. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model to compute the reputation of an agent. We improve existing models by including additional sources of information in reputation computing. Furthermore, each source of information has a weight that reflects its importance. So we also propose a new approach for computing the weight of each source of information. We show that our model is valid since while adding new sources of information, agents behave as expected.