Managing trust in distributed agent systems

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4158 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 17-25

  Yau, Stephen S ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed agent systems; Security; Situation awareness; Trust; Trust management

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; SECURITY OF DATA;

AGENT INTERACTIONS; DISTRIBUTED AGENT SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; TRUST MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750044847     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11839569_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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