Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies: Theory and Applications in HCI and E-Commerce

✍ Scribed by Guido Boella, Leendert van der Torre (auth.), Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Jordi Sabater-Mir, Munindar P. Singh (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3577 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Based on two international workshops on trust in agent societies, held at AAMAS 2003 and AAMAS 2004, this book draws together carefully revised papers on trust, reputation, and security in agent society. Besides workshop papers, several contributions from leading researchers in this interdisciplinary field were solicited to complete coverage of all relevant topics.

The 13 papers presented take into account issues from multiagent systems, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, game theory, and social and organizational science. Theoretical topics are addressed as well as applications in human-computer interaction and e-commerce.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Normative Multiagent Systems and Trust Dynamics....Pages 1-17
Toward Trustworthy Adjustable Autonomy in KAoS....Pages 18-42
Contract Nets for Evaluating Agent Trustworthiness....Pages 43-58
The EigenRumor Algorithm for Calculating Contributions in Cyberspace Communities....Pages 59-74
A Temporal Policy for Trusting Information....Pages 75-94
A Design Foundation for a Trust-Modeling Experimental Testbed....Pages 95-109
Decentralized Reputation-Based Trust for Assessing Agent Reliability Under Aggregate Feedback....Pages 110-128
A Trust Analysis Methodology for Pervasive Computing Systems....Pages 129-143
Decentralized Monitoring of Agent Communications with a Reputation Model....Pages 144-161
A Security Infrastructure for Trust Management in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 162-179
Why Trust Is Hard – Challenges in e-Mediated Services....Pages 180-199
A Protocol for a Distributed Recommender System....Pages 200-217
Temptation and Contribution in C2C Transactions: Implications for Designing Reputation Management Systems....Pages 218-234
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computers and Society; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences