A context-aware approach for service selection using ontologies
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Monopolizing markets by exploiting trust
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Experience-based service provider selection in agent-mediated E-Commerce
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Ontology-Based Service Representation and Selection
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Cooperative evolution of service ontologies
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Searching for Collaborators in Agent Networks
WI-IATW '07 Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops
Using case-based reasoning for improving precision and recall in web services selection
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
Composition and evaluation of trustworthy web services
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
A cooperation-based approach for evolution of service ontologies
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
Autonomic communication services: a new challenge for software agents
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A Comparative Study of Reasoning Techniques for Service Selection
Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Evolving service semantics cooperatively: a consumer-driven approach
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Multiagent and Grid Systems - Engineering Environments in Multiagent Systems
Maintenance-based trust for multi-agent systems
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Using relational concept knowledge to improve search in referral networks
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
A framework for ontology-based service selection in dynamic environments
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Toward Trustworthy Web Services - Approaches, Weaknesses and Trust-By-Contract Framework
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
On the importance of relational concept knowledge in referral networks
Artificial Intelligence Review
Cooperative Sign Language Tutoring: A Multiagent Approach
ESAW '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X
Information Sharing among Autonomous Agents in Referral Networks
Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Where Are All the Agents? On the Gap between Theory and Practice of Agent-Based Referral Networks
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
Fame as an effect of the memory size
ISCIS'05 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computer and Information Sciences
CRM: An efficient trust and reputation model for agent computing
Knowledge-Based Systems
Learning to locate trading partners in agent networks
ALA'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Adaptive and Learning Agents
Evolving semantics for agent-based collaborative search
AAMAS'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Advanced Agent Technology
Improving self-organized resource allocation with effective communication
AP2PC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
Improving trust modeling through the limit of advisor network size and use of referrals
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
A comprehensive approach to trust management
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
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Developing, maintaining, and disseminating trust in open, dynamic environments is crucial. We propose self-organizing referral networks as a means for establishing trust in such environments. A referral network consists of autonomous agents that model others in terms of their trustworthiness and disseminate information on others' trustworthiness. An agent may request a service from another; a requested agent may provide the requested service or give a referral to someone else. Possibly with its user's help, each agent can judge the quality of service obtained. Importantly, the agents autonomously and adaptively decide with whom to interact and choose what referrals to issue, if any. The choices of the agents lead to the evolution of the referral network, whereby the agents move closer to those that they trust. This paper studies the guidelines for engineering self-organizing referral networks. To do so, it investigates properties of referral networks via simulation. By controlling the actions of the agents appropriately, different referral networks can be generated. This paper first shows how the exchange of referrals affects service selection. It identifies interesting network topologies and shows under which conditions these topologies emerge. Based on the link structure of the network, some agents can be identified as authorities. Finally, the paper shows how and when such authorities emerge. The observations of these simulations are then formulated into design recommendations that can be used to develop robust, self-organizing referral networks.