Paper Info
Title
Trust decision-making in multi-agent systems
Abstract
Trust is crucial in dynamic multi-agent systems, where agents may frequently join and leave, and the structure of the society may often change. In these environments, it may be difficult for agents to form stable trust relationships necessary for confident interactions. Societies may break down when trust between agents is too low to motivate interactions. In such settings, agents should make decisions about who to interact with, given their degree of trust in the available partners. We propose a decision-theoretic model of trust decision making allows controls to be used, as well as trust, to increase confidence in initial interactions. We consider explicit incentives, monitoring and reputation as examples of such controls. We evaluate our approach within a simulated, highly-dynamic multi-agent environment, and show how this model supports the making of delegation decisions when trust is low.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.5591/978-1-57735-516-8/IJCAI11-031
IJCAI
Keywords
Field
DocType
initial interaction,stable trust relationship,highly-dynamic multi-agent environment,decision-theoretic model,available partner,explicit incentive,delegation decision,trust decision making,trust decision-making,confident interaction,dynamic multi-agent system
Incentive,Computer science,Knowledge management,Multi-agent system,Computational trust,Delegation,Reputation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.44
8
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chris Burnett11328.40
Timothy J. Norman21417140.04
K. Sycara3103921100.13