%0 Generic %1 citeulike:1430970 %A Esfandiari, B. %A Chandrasekharan, S. %D 2001 %K agents trust %T On How Agents Make Friends: Mechanisms for Trust Acquisition %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/esfandiari01how.html %X We need models of trust to facilitate cooperation in multi-agent systems, where agents, human and artificial, do not know each other beforehand. This paper lists and proposes simple mechanisms for trust acquisition based on a very basic and general definition of trust, making no assumptions on the internal cognitive models of the involved agents. We also show how trust acquired one-on-one can be propagated in a social network of agents. 1

@misc{citeulike:1430970, abstract = {We need models of trust to facilitate cooperation in multi-agent systems, where agents, human and artificial, do not know each other beforehand. This paper lists and proposes simple mechanisms for trust acquisition based on a very basic and general definition of trust, making no assumptions on the internal cognitive models of the involved agents. We also show how trust acquired one-on-one can be propagated in a social network of agents. 1}, added-at = {2007-07-06T10:33:42.000+0200}, author = {Esfandiari, B. and Chandrasekharan, S.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/288842c0177cd2fa545ef2ee3055fbaca/schaal}, citeulike-article-id = {1430970}, interhash = {e1c99b95761059be371e327e0c39226b}, intrahash = {88842c0177cd2fa545ef2ee3055fbaca}, keywords = {agents trust}, priority = {3}, timestamp = {2007-07-06T10:33:48.000+0200}, title = {On How Agents Make Friends: Mechanisms for Trust Acquisition}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/esfandiari01how.html}, year = 2001 }