CONOISE: Agent-Based Formation of Virtual Organisations

Norman, Timothy J.; Preece, Alun; Chalmers, Stuart; Jennings, Nicholas R.; Lück, Michael; Dang, Viet Dung; Nguyen, Tri-Dung; Deora, Vikas; Shao, Jianhua; Gray, W. A.; Fiddian, N. J.

doi:10.1007/978-0-85729-412-8_26

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“…The problem of Virtual Organization formation has been already considered in [3,18,28]. Reputation systems are considered as a useful tool to improve selection performance.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A verifiable, centralized, coercion-free reputation system

Kerschbaum¹

2009

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

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Reputation systems are popular tools to evaluate the trustworthiness of an unknown party before a transaction, but the reputation score can greatly impact the rated subject, such that it might be inclined to suppress negative ratings. In order to elicit coercion-resistant, honest feedback, this paper proposes a reputation system that provides complete privacy of the ratings, i.e. neither the ratee nor the reputation system will learn the value of the rating. We take both, a cryptographic as well as a non-cryptographic approach, to the problem. Privacy of ratings may foster bad mouthing attacks where an attacker leaves intentionally bad feedback. We limit the possibility for this attack by providing a token system such that one can only leave feedback after a transaction, and provide a cryptographic proof of the privacy of our system. We consider the Virtual Organization formation problem and develop and evaluate a novel reputation aggregation algorithm for it.

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“…The problem of Virtual Organization formation has been already considered in [3,18,28]. Reputation systems are considered as a useful tool to improve selection performance.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Reputation systems have often been proposed to support Virtual Organizations (VO) formation [3,18,28,34]. A common problem that arises in these and other reputation systems is that the evaluated parties exert pressure to suppress negative ratings.…”

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A verifiable, centralized, coercion-free reputation system

Kerschbaum¹

2009

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society

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“…For example, it can be used in the development of electronic institutions where self-interest agents (from different organizations) form virtual organizations (coalitions) to solve a users problem [8].…”

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Organizations in Artificial Social Systems

Boella

Torre

2006

Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Multi-Agent Systems

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Abstract. In this paper we introduce organizations and roles in Shoham and Tennenholtz' artificial social systems, using a normative system. We model how real agents determine the behavior of organizations by playing roles in the organization, and how the organization controls the behavior of agents playing a role in it. We consider the design of an organization in terms of roles and the assignment of agents to roles, and the evolution of organizations. We do not present a complete formalization of the computational problems, but we illustrate our approach by examples.

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“…The foremost challenge of collection management is to maximise the effectiveness of limited collection resources within the time constraints imposed by operational requirements." 1 Our work focuses upon the application of Virtual Organisation technologies to manage coalition resources. In the past we have shown an agent-based VOs can manage the deployment and utilisation of network resources in a variety of domains, including ebusiness, e-science, and e-response [1,2].…”

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“…1 Our work focuses upon the application of Virtual Organisation technologies to manage coalition resources. In the past we have shown an agent-based VOs can manage the deployment and utilisation of network resources in a variety of domains, including ebusiness, e-science, and e-response [1,2]. Two distinguishing features of our work are (1) This research was sponsored by the US Army Research Laboratory and the UK Ministry of Defence and was accomplished under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001.…”

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Managing Intelligence Resources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation

Preece

Norman

Gómez

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Whitestein Series in Software Agent Technologies and Autonomic Computing

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Abstract. Effective deployment and utilisation of limited and constrained intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) resources is seen as a key issue in modern network-centric joint-forces operations. In this chapter, we examine the application of semantic matchmaking and argumentation technologies to the management of ISR resources in the context of coalition operations. We show how ontologies and reasoning can be used to assign sensors and sources to meet the needs of missions, and we show how argumentation can support the process of gathering and reasoning about uncertain evidence obtained from various sources.

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CONOISE: Agent-Based Formation of Virtual Organisations

Cited by 40 publications

References 16 publications

A verifiable, centralized, coercion-free reputation system

A verifiable, centralized, coercion-free reputation system

Organizations in Artificial Social Systems

Managing Intelligence Resources Using Semantic Matchmaking and Argumentation

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