Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies Theory and Applica

Based on two international workshops on trust in agent societies, held at AAMAS 2003 and AAMAS 2004, this book draws together carefully revised papers on trust, reputation, and security in agent society. Besides workshop papers, several contributions from

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

3577

Rino Falcone Suzanne Barber Jordi Sabater-Mir Munindar P. Singh (Eds.)

Trusting Agents for Trusting Electronic Societies Theory and Applications in HCI and E-Commerce

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Rino Falcone National Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology Artificial Intelligence Group Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Rome, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Suzanne Barber University of Texas at Austin, Electrical and Computer Engineering The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems, Austin, TX 78712, USA E-mail: [email protected] Jordi Sabater-Mir National Research Council, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology Agent Based Social Simulation Laboratory Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185 Rome, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Munindar P. Singh North Carolina State University, Department of Computer Science 940 Main Campus Drive, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

This special issue is the result of two workshops, the 6th and 7th International Workshops on Trust in Agent Societies, respectively held in Melbourne (Australia) on July 14, 2003 and in New York (USA) on July 19, 2004 as part of the Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems 2003 and 2004 conferences (AAMAS 2003 and AAMAS 2004), and organized by Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Larry Korba, and Munindar Singh (AAMAS 2003) and by Rino Falcone, Suzanne Barber, Jordi Sabater-Mir, and Munindar Singh (AAMAS 2004). The aim of the workshops was to bring together researchers from different fields (artificial intelligence, multi-agent systems, cognitive science, game theory, and the social and organizational sciences) to contribute to a better understanding of trust, reputatio