Trust and multi-agent systems: Applying the "diffuse, default model" of trust to experiments involving artificial agents

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-51

  Buechner, Jeff ^a,b   Tavani, Herman T ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c RIVIER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial agents; Default trust; Diffuse trust; Multi agent systems; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952014887     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-010-9249-z     Document Type: Article

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