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ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
Chris Burnett, Timothy J. Norman, Katia P. Sycara
AIL
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Artificial institutions: a model of institutional reality for open multiagent systems
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, Mario ...
WIAS
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Delegations guided by trust and autonomy
This paper explores delegation decisions predicated on models of trust and autonomy among agents. In socially rich environments, trust and autonomy of artificial agents are key att...
Henry Hexmoor, Shahram Rahimi, Rachil Chandran
CI
2004
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15 years 6 months ago
Purpose-Based Expert Finding in a Portfolio Management System
Most of the research inthe area of expert finding focuses on creating and maintaining centralized directories of experts' profiles, which users can search on demand. However, ...
Xiaolin Niu, Gordon I. McCalla, Julita Vassileva
AAMAS
1999
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Verifying Compliance with Commitment Protocols
Interaction protocols are specific, often standard, constraints on the behaviors of autonomous agents in a multiagent system. Protocols are essential to the functioning of open sys...
Mahadevan Venkatraman, Munindar P. Singh