HTN planning: complexity and expressivity
AAAI'94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 2)
The official PGP user's guide
Distributed Intelligent Agents
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
A Scalable Agent Location Mechanism
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Collaborative Reputation Mechanisms in Electronic Marketplaces
HICSS '99 Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Access Control Meets Public Key Infrastructure, Or: Assigning Roles to Strangers
SP '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
Multi-agent Infrastructure, Agent Discovery, Middle Agents for Web Services and Interoperation
EASSS '01 Selected Tutorial Papers from the 9th ECCAI Advanced Course ACAI 2001 and Agent Link's 3rd European Agent Systems Summer School on Multi-Agent Systems and Applications
The role of trust in distributed design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Access control management in a distributed environment supporting dynamic collaboration
Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Digital identity management
A trusted method for self-profiling in e-commerce
AAMAS'02 Proceedings of the 2002 international conference on Trust, reputation, and security: theories and practice
Robustness challenges in peer-to-peer agent systems
AP2PC'03 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Agents and Peer-to-Peer Computing
A multi-dimensional and event-based model for trust computation in the social web
SocInfo'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Informatics
Trust Management for VANETs: Challenges, Desired Properties and Future Directions
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies
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Facilitated by the rapid growth of the Internet, electronic commerce is growing exponentially. As a result, millions of players participate in electronic trade, yet many of these players are strangers to each other. This implies mistrust, which may bring about manipulative and malicious trade behaviors among the parties. This problem intensifies in electronic environments where agents act on behalf of humans. There, self-interested, utility-maximizing agents, have a strong motivation, and no moral means against, malicious action. Attempts to prevent such misbehavior usually concentrate on designing non-manipulable mechanisms. Yet, these tend to be either computationally intractable or sub-optimal. We suggest a new approach: a mechanism that allows agents in an open system to establish trust among themselves and to dynamically update this trust. Although we rely on certificates for our solution, we do not require (in contrast to previous solutions) any centralized certificate authority system, nor do we require some well known, trusted parties. Our solution is fully distributed, it is computationally feasible, and can be easily added to any agent architecture.