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Trust plays a fundamental role in multi-agent systems in which tasks are delegated or agents must rely on others to perform actions that they themselves cannot do. Dating from the mid-1980s, the Belief-Desire-Intention architecture (BDI) is the longest-standing model of intelligent agency used in multi-agent systems. Part of the attraction of BDI is that it is amenable to logical formalisms such as Wooldridge’s Logic Of Rational Agents (LORA). In a previous paper the present authors introduced a model of trust, here named the Ability-Belief-Commitment-Desire (ABCD) model, that could be implemented within the BDI framework. This paper explores the definition of the ABCD model within the LORA formalism.
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Jarvis, B., Jain, L. (2006). Trust in LORA: Towards a Formal Definition of Trust in BDI Agents. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4252. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893004_59
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