Abstract
Trust mechanisms can allow an agent to identify the most trustworthy entity to which a task should be delegated. Now this entity may further delegate the task, ultimately resulting in a delegation chain representing the sub-delegation process. Such delegation chains present a problem for current trust evaluation mechanisms, as they typically which reward or penalise a single agent rather than sharing responsibility among all members of the delegation chain. As a result, decisions made on such incorrect trust values would not be optimal, leading to degraded system performance. In this paper we investigate the effects of sub-delegation on a probabilistic trust model and propose a model of weighting trust updates based on shared responsibility. We evaluate this model in the context of a simulated multi-agent system and describe how different weighting strategies can affect probabilistic trust updates when sub-delegation is possible.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
Publisher | International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems |
Pages | 1359-1360 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Volume | 3 |
ISBN (Print) | 0-9817381-3-3, 978-0-9817381-3-0 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- trust
- delegation chains