This paper devises a classification system for reputation systems based on two axes, namely: who performs the evaluation of a subject’s reputation, and how the information is col...
Virtual Organizations (VOs) are becoming an increasingly important research topic in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The problem of selecting suitable counterparts to inte...
In multi-agent communities, trust is required when agents hold different beliefs or conflicting goals. We present a framework for decomposing agent reputation into competence—...
In this paper, we present the design of foundation PKI (fPKI), a PKI system constructed on an overlay network for an open source community. fPKI can provide an alternative PKI sys...
Provision of services within a virtual framework for resource sharing across institutional boundaries has become an active research area. Many such services encode access to compu...