Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
In last years, trust and reputation has been gaining increasing interest in multi-agent systems (MAS). To address this issue, we propose in this paper a maintenance-based trust me...
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...
Systems of autonomous agents providing automated services over the Web are fast becoming a reality. Often these agent systems are constructed using procedural architectures that pr...
Agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) need means for locating other agents with which they may collaborate. To address this need, several agent location mechanisms were suggest...