TY - GEN
T1 - A context-aware trust model for service-oriented multi-agent systems
AU - Wan, Kaiyu
AU - Alagar, Vasu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research is supported by a Research Grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(NSERC).
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=71049126575&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-01247-1_23
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:71049126575
SN - 3642012469
SN - 9783642012464
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 221
EP - 236
BT - Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2008 Workshops - ICSOC 2008 International Workshops, Revised Selected Papers
T2 - International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2008
Y2 - 1 December 2008 through 1 December 2008
ER -