Trust in multi-agent systems
@article{Ramchurn2004TrustIM, title={Trust in multi-agent systems}, author={Sarvapali D. Ramchurn and Trung Dong Huynh and Nicholas R. Jennings}, journal={The Knowledge Engineering Review}, year={2004}, volume={19}, pages={1 - 25} }
Trust is a fundamental concern in large-scale open distributed systems. It lies at the core of all interactions between the entities that have to operate in such uncertain and constantly changing environments. Given this complexity, these components, and the ensuing system, are increasingly being conceptualised, designed, and built using agent-based techniques and, to this end, this paper examines the specific role of trust in multi-agent systems. In particular, we survey the state of the art…
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