Trust in multi-agent systems

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-25

  Ramchurn, Sarvapali D ^a   Huynh, Dong ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERACTION PROTOCOLS; OPEN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; STORAGE CAPABILITIES; VICKERY AUCTION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544375031     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269888904000116     Document Type: Review

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