GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews
CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Social information filtering: algorithms for automating “word of mouth”
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Trust and Distrust Definitions: One Bite at a Time
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
A Social Mechanism of Reputation Management in Electronic Communities
CIA '00 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents IV, The Future of Information Agents in Cyberspace
Detecting deception in reputation management
AAMAS '03 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Semantic constraints for trust transitivity
APCCM '05 Proceedings of the 2nd Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual modelling - Volume 43
TRAVOS: Trust and Reputation in the Context of Inaccurate Information Sources
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision
Decision Support Systems
Trust-aware recommender systems
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM conference on Recommender systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Smart cheaters do prosper: defeating trust and reputation systems
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Operators for propagating trust and their evaluation in social networks
Proceedings of The 8th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
Bayesian reputation modeling in E-marketplaces sensitive to subjecthity, deception and change
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Trust representation and aggregation in a distributed agent system
AAAI'06 proceedings of the 21st national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Design of a mechanism for promoting honesty in E-marketplaces
AAAI'07 Proceedings of the 22nd national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
IJCAI'07 Proceedings of the 20th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence
A probabilistic model for trust and reputation
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Trust measures for competitive agents
Knowledge-Based Systems
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Engineering self-organizing referral networks for trustworthy service selection
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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This paper explores potential improvements to the trust modeling of agents in multi-agent systems when a social network of advisors is employed as part of the trust modeling, and in particular, examines means of optimizing the number of advisors that should be maintained in the social network. We propose three such improvements, two directly relating to the limit of advisor network size by either setting a maximum size for a buyer's advisor network or setting a minimum trustworthiness threshold for agents to be accepted into that advisor network, and a third which uses an advisor referral system in combination with one of the first two network-limiting techniques. We provide experimental results in defence of our approach for two distinct trust modeling systems, and show how these optimizations can improve, sometimes significantly, the accuracy of different trust models (in the context of electronic marketplaces). We believe that the proposed techniques will be very useful for trust researchers seeking to improve the accuracy of their own trust models by setting the size and composition of advisor networks.