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Trust model is a key problem in Multi-Agent System. In this paper, a distributed trust model called GTrust is constructed to help agents choose partners in their interactions. The grey system theory, which is used to deal with uncertainty problems, is introduced into this model. A method is designed to rate the witness and also a grey fixed weight clustering approach is proposed to determine the trust to the witnesses. Simulation experiments show that the GTrust can achieve better results in either static environment, or dynamic environment.
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He, L., Huang, H., Dong, X. (2011). GTrust: A Distributed Trust Model in Multi-Agent Systems Based on Grey System Theory. In: Yao, J., Ramanna, S., Wang, G., Suraj, Z. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6954. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24425-4_37
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