Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek and provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discove...
Trust can be applied to knowledge sharing on a distributed network of knowledge source agents. Each agent represents a person who trusts some other agents. Based on these trust-rel...
In this paper, we propose a Web based information sharing system called the Proxy Agent-based Information Sharing (PAIS). We also developed a writable Web mechanism called Web bro...
Information quality assurance despite the existence of uncertainty about sources can be investigated in the context of soft security where an agent maintains trustworthiness evalu...