A Fuzzy Model of Reputation in Multi-Agent Systems

摘要

Agents have become a increasingly popular approach in dealing with this overload of online possibilities either for information discovery and filtering or automatic negotiation of services. In multi-agent systems, the knowledge about other agents involves more than the identity or even the services provided. The agent of any particular user would like to know about how these services are provided and whether they suit the user's expectations. So this information (often called 'trust') should be subjective and dynamic and even uncertain (since a good past behaviour does not assure anything about future behaviour). Trust in distributed systems have been discussed by several researchers.