论文信息 - The Role of Trust and Security Mechanisms in an Agent-Based Peer Help System

The Role of Trust and Security Mechanisms in an Agent-Based Peer Help System

In this paper, we hope to document the use of various agent-based trust and security mechanisms in a simulated economic environment that is used to efficiently locate human helpers in a distributed peerhelp environment. The agents and/or mechanisms will be responsible for ensuring that fraudulent or valueless transactions are monitored, and, if possible, the victim compensated. A variety of methods will be used further to this end, including: reference/review agents, police agents and relationship networks. The use of such agents or techniques will also be relevant to similar systems in the area of electronic-commerce or other agent-based applications.

Mike Winter

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