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...
Distributed message relaying is an important function of a peer-topeer system to discover service providers. Existing search protocols in unstructured peer-to-peer systems either ...
In this paper, we propose a probabilistic framework targeting three important issues in the computation of quality and trust in decentralized systems. Specifically, our approach a...