In this paper, we discuss one possible way of establishing trust between a user entity and a web service. We will assume that the user entity is machine-based (i.e. some software,...
Threshold signature schemes are examples of threshold cryptosystems, as introduced by Desmedt, [4]. The purpose of this paper is to present a rather simple alternative to threshol...
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...
Both, research and application development in the area of multi-agent systems currently undertakes rapid expansion. In order to use multi-agent technology in real applications, it ...
Electronic Commerce has rapidly grown with the expansion of the Internet. E-commerce has also become a promising field for applying agent and Artificial Intelligence technologies....