Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. iii This thesis relates to the usage of trust modelling in multi-agent systems – environments in which there are interacting software agents representing various users (for example, buyers and sellers exchanging products and services in an electronic marketplace). In such applications, trust modelling may be crucial to allow one group of agents (in the e-commerce scenario, buyers) to make effective decisions about which other agents (i.e., sellers) are the most appropriate partners. A number of existing multi-agent trust models have been proposed in the literature to help buyers accurately select the most trustworthy sellers. Our contribution is to propose several modifications that can be applied to existing probabilistic multi-agent trust models. First, we examine how the accuracy of the model
Source: UWSpace (University of Waterloo)
Author: Joshua Gorner
Language: English
Topic: Access Control and Trust
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: University of Waterloo
OpenAlex ID: W2236144900