A Robust Model for Trust Evaluation during Interactions between Agents in a Sociable Environment
This work addresses trust evaluation for agents in sociable environments, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts like direct and indirect trust without introducing a fundamentally new paradigm.
The paper tackles the problem of trust evaluation between agents in sociable environments by developing a robust model that combines direct trust, indirect trust through neighboring links, and agent reputation, applicable broadly across social network structures in a decentralized manner.
Trust evaluation is an important topic in both research and applications in sociable environments. This paper presents a model for trust evaluation between agents by the combination of direct trust, indirect trust through neighbouring links and the reputation of an agent in the environment (i.e. social network) to provide the robust evaluation. Our approach is typology independent from social network structures and in a decentralized manner without a central controller, so it can be used in broad domains.