Top-N item recommendation is one of the important tasks of recommenders. Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach to building recommender systems which can predict ra...
Abstract. This research aims to develop a model of trust and reputation that will ensure good interactions amongst software agents in large scale open systems in particular. The fo...
Jigar Patel, W. T. Luke Teacy, Nicholas R. Jenning...
This paper presents the design of a new middleware which provides support for trust and accountability in distributed data sharing communities. One application is in the context of...
Paul Ruth, Dongyan Xu, Bharat K. Bhargava, Fred Re...
In an open Multi-Agent System, the goals of agents acting on behalf of their owners often conflict with each other. Therefore, a personal agent protecting the interest of a single...
Ruben Stranders, Mathijs de Weerdt, Cees Witteveen
We propose a method for constructing Dempster-Shafer belief functions modeling the trust of a given agent (the evaluator) in another (the target) by combining statistical informat...