Title
Combined On-line and Off-line Trust Mechanism for Agent Computing
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an efficient mechanism dealingwith trust assessment for agent societies, aiming to accuratelyassess the trustworthiness of the collaborating agents.In the proposed model, we formulate on-line assessment process,which applies a number of measurements affecting theevaluator agent’s estimated value regarding to the evaluatedagent’s trust. We then represent the off-line trust assessment,which compares and adjusts the involved features with theactual performance of the evaluated agent. The off-lineprocess updates the belief set of the evaluator agents in thesense that it adapts the agents with respect to the changesin the network. In this paper, the proposed frameworkis described, a theoretical analysis of its assessment andits implementation along with simulations comparison withother models are provided. We also show how our model ismore efficient than the existing models, particularly in verydynamic environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/AINA.2009.77
AINA
Keywords
Field
DocType
theevaluator agent,efficient mechanism dealingwith trust,agent computing,on-line assessment process,existing model,off-line trust mechanism,agent society,off-line trust assessment,combined on-line,assessment andits implementation,evaluator agent,proposed frameworkis,model ismore,history,multiagent systems,computer networks,degradation,multi agent system,protocols,mathematical model,data mining,autonomous agents,estimation,multi agent systems,maintenance engineering
Off line,Trustworthiness,Computer science,Multi-agent system,Maintenance engineering,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1550-445X
1
0.36
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Babak Khosravifar119313.95
Jamal Bentahar2110796.78
Maziar Gomrokchi3735.42
Philippe Thiran457546.19