A Framework to support Heterogeneous Reputation Models Interoperation in Multi-Agent System

摘要：

The reputation of agents in the Multi-Agent System (MAS) has been focused on distributed artificial intelligence domain in recent years.Many efficient and flexible distributed reputation models have been developed.Nevertheless the heterogeneity of agents (including heterogeneous reputation models) becomes one of the obstacles for them to cooperate.Based on the Functional Ontology of Reputation(FORe) and existing reputation systems,a framework is put forward to support interoperation among heterogeneous reputation models in this paper.The elements of the framework,such as rating,recommendation are formally defined.The issues of recommendation report forms,reputation integration,and witness reputation are discussed.Before depicting the agent architecture,we provide a case about how a present reputation model is implemented in the framework.The work will be beneficial to combine heterogeneous reputation models and to integrate applications with different reputation models.

关键词： multi-agent system distributed reputation model interoperation framework

作者: He Lijian Huang Houkuang Zhang Wei

作者单位: School of Computer and Information Technologyn Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing,China School of Computer Yantai University Yantai,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Control(第二届先进计算机控制国际会议 ICACC 2010)

会议地点: 沈阳

会议语种:英文

页码: 183-188

在线出版日期: 2010-03-27（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）