Agent theories, architectures, and languages: a survey
ECAI-94 Proceedings of the workshop on agent theories, architectures, and languages on Intelligent agents
Understanding agent systems
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HICS '98 Proceedings of the Fourth Symposium on Human Interaction with Complex Systems
Trust in information sources as a source for trust: a fuzzy approach
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Using Trust for Secure Collaboration in Uncertain Environments
IEEE Pervasive Computing
An overview of agent coordination and cooperation
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part III
A neural network-based multi-agent classifier system
Neurocomputing
Agent cooperation and collaboration
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
Intelligent agents and their applications
KES'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems - Volume Part II
Building a decision making framework using agent teams
Intelligent Decision Technologies
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Research in Multi-Agent Systems has revealed that Agents must enter into a relationship voluntarily in order to collaborate, otherwise that collaborative efforts may fail [1,2]. When examining this problem, trust becomes the focus in promoting the ability to collaborate, however trust itself is defined from several perspectives. Trust between agents within Multi-Agent System may be analogous to the trust that is required between humans. A Trust, Negotiation, Communication model currently being developed, is based around trust and may be used as a basis for future research and the ongoing development of Multi-Agent System (MAS). This paper is focused on discussing how the architecture of an agent could be designed to provide it the ability to foster trust between agents and therefore to dynamically organise within a team environment or across distributed systems to enhance individual abilities. The Trust, Negotiation, Communication (TNC) model is a proposed building block that provides an agent with the mechanisms to develop a formal trust network both through cooperation or confederated or collaborative associations. The model is conceptual, therefore discussion is limited to the basic framework.