The World Wide Web encourages widely-distributed, open, decentralised systems that span multiple administrative domains. Recent research has turned to trust management [4] as a fr...
The community of multi-agent systems has been studying ways to improve the selection of partner agents for joint action. One of such approaches consists in estimating the trustwort...
An approach is suggested for arguing that a system is dependable. The key idea is to structure the system so that critical requirements are localized in small, reliable subsets of ...
All human co-operation is based on trust, meaning that we choose co-operation partners and make commitment decisions based on how much we trust the other party. Digital certificat...
Abstract. We present a trust model extension that attempts to relax the assumptions that are currently taken by the majority of existing trust models: (i) proven identity of agents...