Year: 2007
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The concepts of reputation and trust, largely researched in other fields, have proved to be also very useful in multi-agent systems (MAS), specially in the process of partnership formation, in which agents select partners to cooperate with.Despite all research that has been carried out in the past few years concerning different reputation and trust models for autonomous agents, an essential aspect related to the use of these models was not sufficiently stressed: how these concepts may effectively help an autonomous agent in order to better evolve in an open MAS scenario.From an agent perspective, there are some important questions regarding this issue: (1) how to choose a partner, taking into account its reputation and the costs associated with the partnership?( 2) is it worth to manipulate information?(3) how to act in a society guided by the concept of reputation in order to achieve better results?This work promotes the analysis of these questions through the discussion of the results obtained from a reputation-based partnership formation simulator called RePart, which was specifically designed for this goal.The simulations present a simplified consumer/enterprise market scenario as a target domain.
Author: Priscilla Barreira Avegliano
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W1823928404