Building consumer trust online
Communications of the ACM
Electronic commerce relationships: trust by design
Electronic commerce relationships: trust by design
Understanding Human Sexuality
Making trust explicit in distributed commerce transactions
ICDCS '96 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS '96)
Principles of Trust for MAS: Cognitive Anatomy, Social Importance, and Quantification
ICMAS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multi Agent Systems
Agent-Based Electronic Commerce: Opportunities and Challenges
ISADS '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems
Benevolent agents
Empirical research in on-line trust: a review and critical assessment
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: Trust and technology
A community of autonomous agents for the search and distribution of information in networks
IRSG'97 Proceedings of the 19th Annual BCS-IRSG conference on Information Retrieval Research
Models for semantic interoperability in service-oriented architectures
IBM Systems Journal
Data & Knowledge Engineering
On the role of trust in collaborative Web search
Artificial Intelligence Review
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust: Bridge the Gap Between PST Technologies and Business Services
Determining the Failure Level for Risk Analysis in an e-Commerce Interaction
Advances in Web Semantics I
A lightweight fault tolerance framework for Web services
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Value-centric trust model with improved familiarity measurement
IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Information security underlying transparent computing: Impacts, visions and challenges
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
A fuzzy approach to risk based decision making
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
A fuzzy attitude based bidding strategy in continuous double auctions
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Using multiagent self-organization techniques for seeking information in virtual social communities
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Adaptiveness and social-compliance in trust management within virtual communities
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems - Web Intelligence and Communities
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This work focuses on the design and implementation of a new model of trust based on the formalizations of reputation, self-esteem, and similarity within an agent. In this work we universalize reputation through the use of values found within all virtual and agent societies. The following values are manifested within a society of agents: responsibility, honesty, independence, obedience, ambition, helpfulness, capability, knowledgability, and cost-efficiency. Manifestations of these values lead to a more universalized approach to formalizing reputation. This new model of trust is examined within the context of an e-commerce framework. The e-commerce based multiagent system is comprised of buyers and sellers that wish to conduct business. Sellers can engage in untrustworthy business behavior at the buyer's expense. It is the job of the model to decide whether a selling agent is trustworthy enough to engage in business. The trust model is analyzed with respect to stability, scalability, accuracy in attaining e-commerce objectives, and general effectiveness in discouraging untrustworthy behavior. Based on the experiments, the model is scalable and stable dependent upon the agent population of buyers and sellers. It achieves its primary objective of discouraging untrustworthy behavior as measured through the acceleration of Gross Domestic Product growth over time. Within the simulator, a high degree of random outcomes is possible. Stability is used to examine the predictability of the model (on average) given a fixed set of given data about the simulations.