BYTE - Lecture notes in computer science Vol. 174
Open information systems semantics for distributed artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Social conceptions of knowledge and action: DAI foundations and open systems semantics
Artificial Intelligence
What is scalability in multi-agent systems?
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Towards a definition of robustness for market-style open multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Trust and deception in virtual societies
Trust and deception in virtual societies
An evidential model of distributed reputation management
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Supporting internet-scale multi-agent systems
Data & Knowledge Engineering - DKE 40
Categories of Artificial Societies
ESAW '01 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World II
Proceedings of the workshop on Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies held during the Autonomous Agents Conference: Trust in Cyber-societies, Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives
The Socio-cognitive Dynamics of Trust: Does Trust Create Trust?
Proceedings of the workshop on Deception, Fraud, and Trust in Agent Societies held during the Autonomous Agents Conference: Trust in Cyber-societies, Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives
Improving the Scalability of Multi-Agent Systems
Revised Papers from the International Workshop on Infrastructure for Multi-Agent Systems: Infrastructure for Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Scalable Multi-Agent Systems
Formal Analysis of Models for the Dynamics of Trust Based on Experiences
MAAMAW '99 Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: MultiAgent System Engineering
Emergent Societies of Information Agents
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Trust Is Much More than Subjective Probability: Mental Components and Sources of Trust
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
Supporting Trust in Virtual Communities
HICSS '00 Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 6 - Volume 6
Trust and Reputation Management in a Small-World Network
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
A multiagent-based peer-to-peer network in Java for distributed spam filtering
CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
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Today, the importance of trust to issues of social coordination seems to be largely accepted in Distributed AI and sociology. This paper suggests a sociological multi-level concept of trust to provide suitable solutions to problems of large-scale open multi-agent systems (MAS). For this purpose, we firstly analyze DAI concepts dealing with the notion of trust and examine effects of trust on the scalability of MAS. We argue that trust itself must be modeled as a social mechanism that allows the scaling up of agent coordination in open MAS. Secondly, we summarize sociological conceptions of trust and outline problems concerning the build-up and diffusion of trust from a sociological perspective. Finally, we introduce a multi-level approach to trust by referring to sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the economy of symbolic goods including basic social mechanisms in order to cope with the coordination of large numbers of heterogeneous agents.