— Trust in software services is a key prerequisite for the success and wide adoption of Services-Oriented Computing (SOC) in an open Internet world. However, trust is poorly asse...
The incorporation of a trust network among the users of a recommender system (RS) proves beneficial to the quality and amount of recommendations. Involving also distrust can offe...
: This paper addresses a specific problem that may arise as consequence of the globalization of the markets. This is the incompatibility between local and global standards of trust...
Reputation and trust are useful instruments in multi-agent systems to evaluate agent behaviour. Most of the works on trust and reputation adopt a quantitative representation of the...
This paper offers a novel approach to coevolution based on the sociological theory of symbolic interactionism. It provides a multi-agent computational model along with experimenta...