The scientific research in the area of computational mechanisms for trust and reputation in virtual societies is a recent discipline oriented to increase the reliability and perfor...
Recommender Systems are used in various domains to generate personalized information based on personal user data. The ability to preserve the privacy of all participants is an ess...
In this paper we develop a notion of "objective trust" for Software Agents, that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experi...
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
In this paper, we propose an efficient mechanism dealing with trust assessment for agent societies, aiming to accurately assess the trustworthiness of the collaborating agents. I...