A BDI agent architecture for reasoning about reputation

Author

Carbo, Javier ; Molina, Jose M. ; Davila, Jorge

Author_Institution

Dept. Informatica, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

817

Abstract

Agents acting on behalf of human users should cooperate with others and reason about their expected behavior in order to avoid deceptions and frauds. This knowledge about others will be used as a means to judge their reputation, and it involves how the services were provided, and whether they suited the particular expectations of the human user represented by the agent. This paper outlines an application of the most popular (and theoretically sound) agent architecture to that problem. This is the so called BDI architecture. Our research describes the beliefs, desires, intentions, and the relationships among them relevant to the given dominion of an agent reasoning about reputation. Due to the subjective nature of such reputations, we use fuzzy sets to represent them

Keywords

belief maintenance; inference mechanisms; software agents; BDI agent architecture; beliefs; fuzzy logic; fuzzy sets; reasoning; reputation; Cultural differences; Environmental economics; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy sets; Humans; International collaboration; Multiagent systems; Open systems; Proposals; Social network services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tucson, AZ

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7087-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2001.973016

Filename

973016