The study of trust has advanced tremendously in recent years, to the extent that the goal of a
more unified formalisation of the concept is becoming feasible. To that end, we have begun …

We explore computational approaches for artificial agents to play the ultimatum game. We
compare our agents' behavior with that predicted by classical game theory, as well as …

A fundamental problem in business-to-business exchanges is the efficient design of
mechanisms to promote cooperation and coordination of various self-interested agents. We …

Current trust models enable decision support at an implicit level by means of thresholds or
constraint satisfiability. Decision support is mostly included only for a single binary action …

The increasing demand for quality information systems (IS), has become quality the most
pressing challenge facing IS development organisations. In the IS development field it is …

The predictions of classical game theory for one-shot and finitely repeated play of many 2x2
simulta neous games do not correspond to human behavior observed in laboratory …

Web caching is a technology that has demonstrated to improve traffic on the Internet. To find
out how to implement a Web caching architecture that assures improvements is not an easy …

Trust and deception have been of concern to researchers since the earliest research into
multi-agent trading systems (MATS). In an open trading environment, trust can be …

The central processors of conventional computers may be roughly divided into two sections,
an arithmetic section, which performs operations analogous to arithmetic upon …

Trust and the trustworthiness of participants in on-line commerce are critical to successful
transactions. U-commerce is an extension to e-commerce that offers the possibility of a …