Certainty, trust and evidence: Towards an integrative model of confidence in multi-agent systems
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Highlights：
• We assume a group of agents, in which a process of opinion gathering takes place.
• We examine the values of agent’s reputation, trust and certainty.
• Confidence value for agents depend on the values of trust and certainty.
• Increasing the importance of trust increases the weight of trust in the confidence’s value calculations.
• Agents trust or agent’s certainty alone does not affect agent’s confidence value.
摘要
•We assume a group of agents, in which a process of opinion gathering takes place.•We examine the values of agent’s reputation, trust and certainty.•Confidence value for agents depend on the values of trust and certainty.•Increasing the importance of trust increases the weight of trust in the confidence’s value calculations.•Agents trust or agent’s certainty alone does not affect agent’s confidence value.
论文关键词：Multi-agent system,Confidence,Certainty,Trust,Evidence-based trust
论文评审过程：Available online 8 January 2015.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.12.030
