Finding reliable partners to interact with in open environments is a challenging task for
software agents, and trust and reputation mechanisms are used to handle this issue. From …

In open and dynamic multiagent systems (MASs), agents often need to rely on resources or
services provided by other agents to accomplish their goals. During this process, agents are …

The mind is a powerful anticipatory device. It frequently makes predictions about the future,
telling us not only how the world might or will be, but also how it should be-or better-how we …

In many dynamic open systems, autonomous agents must interact with one another to
achieve their goals. Such agents may be self-interested and, when trusted to perform an …

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 …

Trust is a construct of paramount importance in society. Accordingly, computational trust is
evolving fast in order to allow trust in artificial societies. Despite the advances in this …

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 …

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

Crowdsourcing refers to the arrangement in which contributions are solicited from a large
group of unrelated people. Due to this nature, crowdsourcers (or task requesters) often face …

This paper presents a generic Trust Negotiation framework for Web services, based on the
WS-Trust standard. It allows users to create trust incrementally, by disclosing credentials …