Endorsements, licensing, and insurance for distributed system services
CCS '94 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Conference on Computer and communications security
An evidential model of distributed reputation management
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A coalition formation mechanism based on inter-agent trust relationships
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
A reputation-based trust model for peer-to-peer ecommerce communities [Extended Abstract]
Proceedings of the 4th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Reasoning about Trust and Insurance in a Public Key Infrastructure
CSFW '00 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE workshop on Computer Security Foundations
A Computational Model of Trust and Reputation for E-businesses
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
On Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue: Fuzzy set and possibility theory-based methods in artificial intelligence
A Fuzzy-Logic Based Bidding Strategy for Autonomous Agents in Continuous Double Auctions
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
An Infrastructure for the Semantic Integration of FIPA Compliant Agent Platforms
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
Coalition formation among bounded rational agents
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
A multi-agent architecture for an intelligent website in insurance
CIA'99 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Cooperative information agents III
ADT '09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory
Integrating insurance services, trust and risk mechanisms into multi-agent systems
PRICAI'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Artificial intelligence
Buying and selling with insurance in open multi-agent marketplace
PRICAI'06 Proceedings of the 9th Pacific Rim international conference on Artificial intelligence
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In a multi-agent environment, there is often the need for an agent to cooperate with others so as to ensure that a given task is achieved timely and cost-effectively. Present agent systems currently maximizes this through mechanisms such as trust and risk assessments. In this paper, we extend this mechanism by introducing the concept of insurance, in which the insurance agents act as a bridge between agents who require resources from others. Unlike traditional systems, agents purchase insurance so as to guarantee to have the requested resources during the task execution time and thus minimize the risk in task failure. The novelty of this proposal is that it ensures agents continuously to exchange resources and to seek maximum expected utility in a dynamic environment at the same time. Our experimental results confirm the feasibility of our approach.