DEVISING A TRUST MODEL FOR MULTI-AGENT INTERACTIONS USING CONFIDENCE AND REPUTATION

In open environments in which autonomous agents can break contracts, computational models of trust have an important role to play in determining who to interact with and how interactions unfold. To this end, we develop such a trust model, based on confidence and reputation, and show how it can be concretely applied, using fuzzy sets, to guide agents in evaluating past interactions and in establishing new contracts with one another.

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