Socially conscious decision-making
AGENTS '00 Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Autonomous agents
Robustness of reputation-based trust: boolean case
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Reputation and social network analysis in multi-agent systems
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 1
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Intention Reconciliation by Collaborative Agents
ICMAS '00 Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems (ICMAS-2000)
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Predicting agent strategy mix of evolving populations
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
TRAVOS: Trust and Reputation in the Context of Inaccurate Information Sources
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An integrated trust and reputation model for open multi-agent systems
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A probabilistic model for trust and reputation
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: volume 1 - Volume 1
Being trusted in a social network: trust as relational capital
iTrust'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Trust Management
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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Trust has been recognized as a key component of agent decision making in the context of multiagent systems (MASs). Though diverse trust models and mechanisms, influenced by various fields of study, have been proposed, implemented, and evaluated, we believe that the literature has ignored key aspects of pragmatic and holistic trust based reasoning. In particular, the focus of trust research has been on a posteriori evaluation of the trustworthiness of another agent and relatively few efforts have investigated the issue of establishment, engagement, and usage of trusted relationships. We envision that a holistic agent architecture will not use a trust module as a black-box for evaluating others but as a core component that will inform and shape interactions with other agents in the environment to best serve the decision-makers interests. Accordingly, we present a general and comprehensive trust management scheme (CTMS) that addresses key issues surrounding trust development, maintenance, and use. We present an operational definition of trust motivated by uncertainty management and utility optimization. We identify the various components required of a CTMS and their relationships and overview their use in the existing literature on trust in MAS. We welcome the MAS community to develop on the ideas presented here and build effective agent designs and implementations with fully-integrated CTMS cores.