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Trust Alignment: A Sine Qua Non of Open Multi-agent Systems

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In open multi-agent systems trust is necessary to improve cooperation by enabling agents to choose good partners. Most trust models work by taking, in addition to direct experiences, other agents’ communicated evaluations into account. However, in an open multi-agent system other agents may use different trust models and as such the evaluations they communicate are based on different principles. This article shows that trust alignment is a crucial tool in this communication. Furthermore we show that trust alignment improves significantly if the description of the evidence, upon which a trust evaluation is based, is taken into account.

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    Andrew Koster, Jordi Sabater-Mir & Marco Schorlemmer

  2. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Andrew Koster & Marco Schorlemmer

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Koster, A., Sabater-Mir, J., Schorlemmer, M. (2011). Trust Alignment: A Sine Qua Non of Open Multi-agent Systems. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2011. OTM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7044. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25109-2_13

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