The issue of trust is a research problem in emerging open environments, such as ubiquitous
networks. Such environments are highly dynamic and they contain diverse number of …

Agent technology has generated lots of excitement in the past decade. Currently, multi-agent
systems (MAS) composed of autonomous agents representing individuals or organizations …

Trust and reputation are two distinct social constructs of high complexity that have been
studied for decades in different areas of knowledge. In order to allow for efficient models of …

In this chapter, some different (and in part complementary) analyses and approaches to the
study of the relationship between Norms and Trust are briefly introduced. First, how Trust …

Agreement Technologies are needed for autonomous agents to come to mutually
acceptable agreements, typically on behalf of humans. These technologies include trust …

The ANTE framework encompasses results of research efforts on three main agreement
technology concepts, namely negotiation, normative environments and computational trust …

With the advent of the digital economy, relationships between business partners are
increasing in flexibility, and business binds tend to be created whenever a business …

The development of computational trust models is growing in attention in the community of
multi-agent systems and these models are currently seen as of extreme importance in social …

Previous work on computational trust has delivered robust aggregation engines that proved
competent in estimating the trustworthiness of agents. However, most of these approaches …

In this era of digital economy, commercial relationships between business partners are
increasing in flexibility, with new business binds being created whenever a business …