The social structure of trust

Buskens, Vincent

doi:10.1016/s0378-8733(98)00005-7

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“…In order to organise the retrieval and aggregation of ratings from other agents, most reputation models borrow the concept of a social network from sociology (Burt, 1982;Buskens, 1998). Similar to human societies, this assumes that agents are related to each other whenever they have roles that interconnect them or whenever they have communication links (e.g.…”

Section: Reputation Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust in multi-agent systems

Ramchurn¹,

Huynh²,

Jennings³

2004

The Knowledge Engineering Review

476

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Trust is a fundamental concern in large-scale open distributed systems. It lies at the core of all interactions between the entities that have to operate in such uncertain and constantly changing environments. Given this complexity, these components, and the ensuing system, are increasingly being conceptualised, designed, and built using agent-based techniques and, to this end, this paper examines the specific role of trust in multi-agent systems. In particular, we survey the state of the art and provide an account of the main directions along which research efforts are being focused. In so doing, we critically evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the main models that have been proposed and show how, fundamentally, they all seek to minimise the uncertainty in interactions. Finally, we outline the areas that require further research in order to develop a comprehensive treatment of trust in complex computational settings.

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Section: Reputation Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trust in multi-agent systems

Ramchurn¹,

Huynh²,

Jennings³

2004

The Knowledge Engineering Review

476

303

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“…Therefore, it is not a surprise that several disciplines, each one from a different perspective, have studied and used both concepts. Psychology (Karlins and Abelson 1970;Bromley 1993), sociology (Buskens 1998), philosophy (Plato 1955;Hume 1975) and economy (Celentani et al 1966;Marimon et al 2000) are a good representation of disciplines that have dedicated efforts to the study of trust and reputation. In this review, however, we will focus our attention on another discipline where the study of trust and reputation has acquired a great relevance in the last few years.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review on Computational Trust and Reputation Models

Sabater¹,

Sierra²

2005

Artif Intell Rev

726

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Abstract. The scientific research in the area of computational mechanisms for trust and reputation in virtual societies is a recent discipline oriented to increase the reliability and performance of electronic communities. Computer science has moved from the paradigm of isolated machines to the paradigm of networks and distributed computing. Likewise, artificial intelligence is quickly moving from the paradigm of isolated and non-situated intelligence to the paradigm of situated, social and collective intelligence. The new paradigm of the so called intelligent or autonomous agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) together with the spectacular emergence of the information society technologies (specially reflected by the popularization of electronic commerce) are responsible for the increasing interest on trust and reputation mechanisms applied to electronic societies. This review wants to offer a panoramic view on current computational trust and reputation models.

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“…The study and modeling of reputation has attracted the interest of scientists from different fields such as: sociology [10,5], economics [7,12], psychology [4,11] and computer science [6,3,18]. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, reputation is "the common or general estimate of a person with respect to character or other qualities".…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a direct consequence of the interactions it is possible (even in simple societies) to identify different types of social relations between their members. Sociologists and psychologists have been studying these social networks in human societies for a long time and also how these social networks can be used to analyse trust and reputation [8,5]. These studies show that it is possible to say a lot about the behaviour of individuals using the information obtained from the analysis of their social network.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%