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Measuring Behaviour-Based Trust between Negotiating Agents

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Cooperative Information Agents VI (CIA 2002)

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We describe a metric to assess agent trustworthiness from the earliest stages of a dialogue between two web agents. There is no assumption of a transaction history between the agents nor is there a requirement for the agents to fully share the semantics of the set of alternatives over which negotiation occurs. The metric is designed to recognise a form of co-operative negotiation behaviour, so-called logrolling, which is known to induce trust between human negotiators. The metric requires an agent to be able to infer the issue priorities of the other party over a series of proposals and to correlate these with its own priorities. An example is used to illustrate how this may be achieved.

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  1. School of Computing & Management Science, Sheffield Hallam University, Pond Street, S1 1WB, Sheffield, UK

    Michael Grimsley

  2. Faculty of Mathematics & Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, Buckinghamshire, UK

    Anthony Meehan

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  1. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI GmbH, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  2. School of Engineering (ESCET), University Rey Juan Carlos, Campus de Mostoles, Calle Tulipan s/n, 28933, Madrid, Spain

    Sascha Ossowski

  3. IBM - Haifa Research Labs, Haifa University, Mount Carmel, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Onn Shehory

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Grimsley, M., Meehan, A. (2002). Measuring Behaviour-Based Trust between Negotiating Agents. In: Klusch, M., Ossowski, S., Shehory, O. (eds) Cooperative Information Agents VI. CIA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2446. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45741-0_11

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