DART: A distributed analysis of reputation and trust framework

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 642-682

  Salehi Abari, Amirali ^a   White, Tony ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

multiagent systems; reputation; trust

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENT MODELS; EVALUATION CRITERIA; GAME-THEORETIC; HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS; MICRO AND MACRO; OPEN DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; OPEN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; REPUTATION; TRUST; TRUST AND REPUTATION; TRUST FRAMEWORKS; TRUST MODELS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; GAME THEORY; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 84868100476     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: 14678640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8640.2012.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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