Situation-aware trust management in multi-agent systems

Abstract

Miss Qiong Wu, and Mr. Jun Lin who provided me with valuable suggestions and guidance. The Emerging Research Laboratory has been like a family to me. I have benefited immensely from various intellectually stimulating discussions with visiting scientists and my colleagues including Dr.

Multi-Criteria Trust Establishment for Multi-Agent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic

“…As autonomous agents in MASs may have their own costume set of beliefs and may make inaccurate statements regarding their abilities and competencies, there is a need for using effective trust assessment models to help trustors maximize interactions' benefits (Burnett, 2011). Unlike security techniques concerned with ensuring data integrity and data confidentiality, trust evaluation models offer a way to protect trustors from malicious trustees (Yu, 2014).…”

“…Due to the simplicity of Fuzzy Logic Systems (FLSs) and their similarity to human reasoning, FLSs have been successfully used with various application areas (Georgoulas et al, 2012) including web services trust evaluation (Shirgahi et al, 2017), cloud computing trust evaluation (Supriya et al, 2016), social networks trust evaluation for (Singh and Sidhu, 2016a) and trust evaluation for multi-agent systems (Aref and Tran, 2018;2014;Singh and Sidhu, 2016b;Shen et al, 2015).…”