Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice: Aamas 2002 International Workshop, Bologna, Italy, July 15, 2002. Selected and Invited Papers

ISBN-13: 9783540009887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 233 str.

Rino Falcone; Suzanne Barber; Larry Korba

Opis

This special issue is the result of the workshop Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies, held in Bologna on July 15, 2002 as part of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 2002 Conference (AAMAS2002), organized by Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Larry Korba, and Munindar Singh. The workshop included a special track on "Privacy and Protection with Multi-Agent Systems. " The aim of the workshop was to bring together researchers from different ?elds (Arti?cial Intelligence, Mul- agent Systems, Cognitive Science, Game Theory, and Social and Organizational S- ences) that could contribute to a better understanding of trust, privacy and protection in agent societies. The workshop scope included theoretical results and their applications inhuman-computerinteractionandelectroniccommerce. Thisissueincludesaselection oftherevisedandextendedversionsoftheworkspresentedattheworkshop, incorpor- ing many points that emerged in our discussions, as well as invited papers from expert peopleinthe?eld, whichinourviewgivesacompletecoverageofallrelevantissues. We gratefully acknowledge the ?nacial support from the Italian National Research Council, Institute for Cognitive Science and Technology and theALFEBIITE European Project, contract number IST-1999-10298. We want to express our gratitude to Cristiano Castelfranchi for his stimulating and valuable comments and suggestions both for the organization of the workshop and for the preparation of this special issue.

Spis treści

How Human Trusters Assess Trustworthiness in Quasi-virtual Contexts.- Challenges for Trust, Fraud and Deception Research in Multi-agent Systems.- Designing for Trust.- The Epistemic Role of Trust.- Trustworthy Service Composition: Challenges and Research Questions.- A Service-Oriented Trust Management Framework.- A Fuzzy Approach to a Belief-Based Trust Computation.- Annotating Cooperative Plans with Trusted Agents.- Supervised Interaction — A Form of Contract Management to Create Trust between Agents.- Evaluating Reputation in Multi-agents Systems.- Towards Incentive-Compatible Reputation Management.- Securing Agent-Based e-Banking Services.- Specifying Standard Security Mechanisms in Multi-agent Systems.- A Trusted Method for Self-profiling in e-Commerce.- A Practical Study on Security of Agent-Based Ubiquitous Computing.- Designing for Privacy in a Multi-agent World.- Soft Security: Isolating Unreliable Agents from Society.