Comprehensive Trust Management

Trust has been viewed as an integral component of agent decision making in the context of multiagent systems (MASs). Various formal and semi-formal trust schemes, motivatedby diverse considerations and influenced by various fields ofstudy, have been proposed, implemented, and evaluated. Webelieve that there still exists a pressing need for developinga comprehensive trust management scheme that addressesmost, if not all, issues underlying trust development, maintenance, and use. To facilitate the discussion of a generaland comprehensive trust management scheme, we provideour own operational definition of trust motivated by uncertainty management and utility optimization. We identifythe various components required of a comprehensive trustmanagement scheme and their roles in determining agentperformance in a competitive, open MAS.

Authors

• Sandip Sen The University of Tulsa
• Kuheli Chakraborty

Keywords

• trust management
• engagement
• trust establishment
• trust evaluation