Comprehensive Trust Management (Extended Abstract)
Sandip Sen, Kuheli Chakraborty · 2010
Trust has been viewed as an integral component of agent decision making in the context of multiagent systems (MASs). Various formal and semi-formal trust schemes, motivated by diverse considerations and influenced by various fields of study, have been proposed, implemented, and evaluated .W e believe that there still exists a pressing need for developing a comprehensive trust management scheme that addresses most, if not all, issues underlying trust development, maintenance, and use. To facilitate the discussion of a general and comprehensive trust management scheme, we provide our own operational definition of trust motivated by uncertainty management and utility optimization .W e identify the various components required of a comprehensive trust management scheme and their roles in determining agent performance in a competitive, open MAS.