Title :
An Efficient Trust Model for Multi-Agent Systems
Author :
Namin, Akbar S. ; Wei, Ruizhong ; Shen, Weiming ; Ghenniwa, Hamada
Author_Institution :
Nat. Res. Council of Canada
Abstract :
Agent-based e-business opens up a computational direction, in which software agents behave on behalf of their owners. However, enabling agents to make decisions and exploiting information to other unknown agents have introduced some security challenges among them is trust relationship while agents are dealing with unknown environments and their residences. Despite existing of some sophisticated proposed approaches addressing the above problem, most of them are suffering from complexity and therefore drawback from development. We propose an efficient trust model for distributed systems mainly focusing on multi-agent systems. We provide a feasible mechanism using some well-known cryptographic techniques such that not only it addresses the above issue but also guarantees the security and resistibility of the model against some attacks
Keywords :
cryptography; electronic commerce; multi-agent systems; software agents; agent-based e-business; cryptographic technique; distributed system; multiagent system; software agent; trust model; Collaborative work; Computational modeling; Councils; Cryptography; Information security; Lakes; Multiagent systems; National security; Risk management; Software agents; Agents; Multi-Agent Systems; Trust;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, 2006. CSCWD '06. 10th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nanjing
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0164-X
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0165-8
DOI :
10.1109/CSCWD.2006.253244