Reputation in Artificial Societies

Foreword. Acknowledgments. Introduction Order: Old Problems, New Challenges, and Reusable Solutions. Part I: The State of the Art. 1. Why Bother with Reputation? 2. Theory and Practice of Cooperation: Focusing on the Reputed Agent. 3. The Shadow of the Future. Part II: Reputation Transmission. 4. An Alternative Perspective: the Reputing Agent. 5. Advantages of Reputation over Repeated Interaction. 6. Whether, Why, and Whom to Tell. Part III: What Reputation is Good For. 7. Reciprocal Altruism Reconsidered. 8. Informational Altruism. 9. False Reputation. Part IV: Advantages of the Present Approach. 10. Social Impact of Reputation. 11. Reputation in Infosocieties. Concluding Remarks. Bibliography. Index.