Decentralized monitoring of agent communications with a reputation model

  • Authors:
  • Guillaume Muller;Laurent Vercouter

  • Affiliations:
  • MAS Department – G2I Center, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne CEDEX 2;MAS Department – G2I Center, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne CEDEX 2

  • Venue:
  • Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Communication is essential in multi-agent systems, since it allows agents to share knowledge and to coordinate. However, in open multi-agent systems, autonomous and heterogeneous agents can dynamically enter or leave the system. It is then important to take into account that some agents may not respect – voluntarily or not – the rules that make the system function properly. In this paper, we propose a trust model for the reliability of agent communications. We define inconsistencies in the communications (represented as social commitments) in order to enable agents to detect lies and update their trust model of other agents. Agents can also use their trust model to decide whether to trust or not a new message sent by another agent.