Approach for Evaluating the Trustworthiness of Service Agent

This paper addresses the service selection issue via a service agent framework coupled with a computational model based on trust ontology.The trust ontology proposed from the socio-cognitive view can offer a more insightful understanding in the trust relationships among service agents.A set of trust computational rules have been given to support the trust analysis and reasoning.Also the structure of the service agents has been given.Finally,a case study is used to illustrate how the service agents infer the trustworthiness of their partners by using the set of trust reasoning and computational rules.