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In competitive multi-agent systems, the act of requesting recommendations to evaluate the reputation of an agent is a cost. On the contrary, an agent computes the reliability of another agent without paying any price. This implies the necessity for the agent to decide in which measure to use the reputation with respect to the reliability when he must select the most promising interlocutors. In the past, two main schools of thinking emerged, one assuming the necessity of always exploiting both reliability and reputation, the other declaring that the use of reputation requires, in terms of cost, more disadvantages than advantages. In this paper, we try to evaluate the role of using reputation with respect to reliability, depending on some characteristics of the involved scenario, as the size of the agent population, the percentage of unreliable agents and the percentage of agents provided with a reputation model.
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Garruzzo, S., Rosaci, D. (2010). The Roles of Reliability and Reputation in Competitive Multi Agent Systems. In: Meersman, R., Dillon, T., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010. OTM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6426. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16934-2_23
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