A specification of the Agent Reputation and Trust (ART) testbed: Experimentation and competition for trust in agent societies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 645-651

  Fullam, Karen K ^a   Klos, Tomas B ^b   Muller, Guillaume ^c   Sabater, Jordi ^d   Schlosser, Andreas ^e   Topol, Zvi ^f   Suzanne Barber, K ^a   Rosenschein, Jeffrey S ^f   Vercouter, Laurent ^c   Voss, Marco ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^e DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Competition testbed; Multi agent systems; Reputation; Trust

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPETITION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

COMPETITION TESTBED; REPUTATION; TRUST;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33644809731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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