An efficient and versatile approach to trust and reputation using hierarchical Bayesian modelling

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 193, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-185

  Teacy, W T Luke ^a   Luck, Michael ^b   Rogers, Alex ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Group based trust; Probabilistic trust; Reputation; Trust

Indexed keywords

GROUP-BASED; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; INFORMATION SOURCES; MULTIPLE REPRESENTATION; PERFORMANCE BASED; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROBABILISTIC TRUST; PROBABILISTIC TRUST MODELS; REPUTATION; SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; THEORETICAL ASPECTS; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; THIRD PARTIES; TRUST; TRUST AND REPUTATION; TRUST MODELS; WEB SERVERS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84866485603     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2012.09.001     Document Type: Article

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