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Challenges for Trust, Fraud and Deception Research in Multi-agent Systems

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Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice (TRUST 2002)

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Discussions at the 5th Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies held at the 1st International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2002) centered around many important research issues1. This paper attempts to challenge researchers in the community toward future work concerning three issues inspired by the workshop’s roundtable discussion: (1) distinguishing elements of an agent’s behavior that influence its trustworthiness, (2) building reputation-based trust models without relying on interaction, and (3) benchmarking trust modeling algorithms. Arguments justifying the validity of each problem are presented, and benefits from their solutions are enumerated.

Special thanks to workshop leader, Rino Falcone; workshop organizers Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Larry Korba, and Munindar Singh; and panel participants, Cristiano Castelfranchi (moderator), Suzanne Barber, Michael Bacharach, Munindar Singh, Stefan Poslad.

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  1. The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    K. Suzanne Barber, Karen Fullam & Joonoo Kim

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Group of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Interacting Modelling, National Research Council, Viale Marx 15, 00137, Rome, Italy

    Rino Falcone

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems Austin, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Suzanne Barber

  3. Institute for Information Technology, Network Computing Group, National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Building M-50, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Larry Korba

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 940 Main Campus Drive, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA

    Munindar Singh

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Barber, K.S., Fullam, K., Kim, J. (2003). Challenges for Trust, Fraud and Deception Research in Multi-agent Systems. In: Falcone, R., Barber, S., Korba, L., Singh, M. (eds) Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice. TRUST 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36609-1_2

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