Dealing with trust and distrust in agents societies

  • Authors:
  • Elisabetta Erriquez

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

  • Venue:
  • The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Agents in Multi-Agent Systems depend on interactions with others to achieve their goals. Often, goals of agents conflict with each other, and agents can be unreliable or deceitful. Therefore, trust and reputation are key issues in this domain. As in human societies, software agents must interact with other agents in settings where there is the possibility that they can be exploited. This suggests the need for computational models of trust and reputation that can be used by software agents, therefore much research has investigated this issue over the past decade [1, 13, 4, 10, 15, 16, 8, 14]. This thesis concentrates on two important questions, therefore it is divided in two parts. The first question is what sources agents can use to build their trust of others upon. The second question is how agents can use trust and reputation concepts to form stable coalitions.