This paper extends earlier work in the use of ‘Agent-based Computational Economics’ (ACE) for modelling the development of co-operation between firms. Inter-firm relations hav...
Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is thought to be inadequate when one needs to establish trust. If, however, people meet before using CMC, they trust each other, trust being ...
Jun Zheng, Elizabeth S. Veinott, Nathan Bos, Judit...
—The need for collaborative service provisioning across different providers’ domains is being addressed by Circles of Trust (CoT), whose members adhere to the same policies and...
Knowledge communities of all kinds have social and material practices for deciding what is known and who is to be trusted. In this paper, we address a specific kind of knowledge w...
Nancy A. Van House, Mark H. Butler, Lisa R. Schiff
Cooperation plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which individual agents must interact for the overall system to function effectively. However, cooperation inherently...