The Z notation: a reference manual
The Z notation: a reference manual
ISLANDER: an electronic institutions editor
Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: part 3
A Formal Specification of dMARS
ATAL '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents IV, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages
Understanding Agent Systems
Identifying Opportunities and Constraints for Goal Achievement through Relationship Analysis
AAMAS '04 Proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
The Knowledge Engineering Review
On identifying and managing relationships in multi-agent systems
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
A survey of trust in computer science and the Semantic Web
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
Emergence of global network property based on multi-agent voting model
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Tracking reliability and helpfulness in agent interactions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
An e-market framework to determine the strength of business relationships between intelligent agents
AusDM '07 Proceedings of the sixth Australasian conference on Data mining and analytics - Volume 70
Predicting trusts among users of online communities: an epinions case study
Proceedings of the 9th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
Sequential decision making with untrustworthy service providers
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
A statistical relational model for trust learning
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - Volume 2
A Public-Key Protocol for Social Networks with Private Relationships
MDAI '07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence
Learning Initial Trust Among Interacting Agents
CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
A Specialised Architecture for Embedding Trust Evaluation Capabilities in Intelligent Mobile Agents
Agent Computing and Multi-Agent Systems
On reliability indices of communication networks
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
PETS'10 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Privacy enhancing technologies
Context based trust normalization in service-oriented environments
ATC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Autonomic and trusted computing
Effective Usage of Computational Trust Models in Rational Environments
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Dealing with trust and distrust in agents societies
The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
A sociologically inspired heuristic for optimization algorithms: A case study on ant systems
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Building and using social structures: A case study using the agent ART testbed
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special section on agent communication, trust in multiagent systems, intelligent tutoring and coaching systems
Web User Trust Relationship Prediction Based on Cloud Model
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Innovative Computing and Cloud Computing
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Current mechanisms for evaluating the trustworthiness of an agent within an electronic marketplace depend either on using a history of interactions or on recommendations from other agents. In the first case, these requirements limit what an agent with no prior interaction history can do. In the second case, they transform the problem into one of trusting the recommending agent. However, these mechanisms do not consider the relationships between agents that arise through interactions (such as buying or selling) or through overarching organisational structures (such as hierarchical or flat), which can also aid in evaluating trustworthiness. In response, this paper outlines a method that enables agents to evaluate the trustworthiness of their counterparts, based solely on an analysis of such relationships. Specifically, relationships are identified using a generic technique in conjunction with a basic model for agent-based marketplaces. They are then interpreted through a trust model that enables the inference of trust valuations based on the different types of relationships. In this way, we provide a further component for a trust evaluation model that addresses some of the limitations of existing work.