A context-aware trust model for service-oriented multi-agent systems

Kaiyu Wan*, Vasu Alagar

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Service-oriented systems offer the potential for minimizing the development time of business applications within an enterprise while promoting collaborative joint ventures among enterprisers distributed geographically. Service-oriented applications assembled from services obtained from different vendors, sometimes anonymous, should be trustworthy. In this paper we investigate context-aware multi-agent systems (MAS) which can dynamically form coalitions of trusted partners as an effective mechanism to act on behalf of service requestors, find services requested by them, determine trusted services, and provide services to the requestors without violating the privacy of the partners involved in such transactions. The MAS is open with respect to external agents requesting and receiving services, but closed with respect to other activities initiated by external agents. The agents in MAS may have different trust models. We explain how trust models of different agents should be composed into a web of trust for trusted transactions in MAS.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationService-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
Pages221-236
Number of pages16
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
EventInternational Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Duration: 1 Dec 20081 Dec 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume5472 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney, NSW
Period1/12/081/12/08

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