Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'00)
Objective Trust-Based Agents: Trust and Trustworthiness in a Multi-Agent Trading Society
Boston, Massachusetts
July 10-July 12
ISBN: 0-7695-0625-9
In this paper, we develop a notion of “objective trust” for Software Agents that is trust of, or between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experiential objective trust allows Agents to make decisions about how to select other Agents when a choice has to be made. We introduce a mechanism for such an “objective Trust-Based Agent” (oTB-Agent). The trust one Agent places in another is dynamic, updated based on each experience. We summarize experimental results obtained from a simulated trading environment.
Citation:
Mark Witkowski, Jeremy Pitt, "Objective Trust-Based Agents: Trust and Trustworthiness in a Multi-Agent Trading Society," icmas, pp.0463, Fourth International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'00), 2000