In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...
Computational trust and reputation models have been recognized as one of the key technologies required to design and implement agent systems. These models manage and aggregate the...
A rational agent adopts (or changes) its goals when new information (beliefs) becomes available or its desires (e.g., tasks it is supposed to carry out) change. In conventional ap...
This paper presents the influence of norms on agent trust and autonomy. Different attributes of norms were considered that accentuate trust and attenuate autonomy. Experimental re...
We address the learning of trust based on past observations and context information. We argue that from the truster's point of view trust is best expressed as one of several ...