Belief revision process based on trust:Agents evaluating reputation of information sources

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2246, Issue , 2001, Pages 73-82

  Barber, K Suzanne ^a   Kim, Joonoo ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief networks; Multi agent belief revision; Reputation; Trust management

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; NETWORK SECURITY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; INDIVIDUAL AGENT; INFORMATION SOURCES; LOCAL PERSPECTIVE; MULTI AGENT; RELIABILITY INFORMATION; REPUTATION; TRUST MANAGEMENT;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 78650361584     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45547-7_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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