Computational trust and reputation models have been recognized as one of the key technologies required to design and implement agent systems. These models manage and aggregate the...
Social commitments have been increasingly used to model inter-agent dependencies and normative aspects of multiagent systems such as the semantics of agent communication. However,...
Social networks have small-world property, hierarchical community structure, and some other properties. This paper proposes models of networks with these properties and algorithm ...
There is a wide variety of data mining methods available, and it is generally useful in exploratory data analysis to use many different methods for the same dataset. This, however...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...