@InProceedings{yu02a,
  author =	 {Bin Yu and Munindar P. Singh},
  title =	 {An Evidential Model of Distributed Reputation
                  Management},
  googleid =	 {mgxXu_HF7ywJ:scholar.google.com/},
  booktitle =	 {Proceedings of the 1st International Joint
                  Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent
                  Systems},
  pages =	 {294--301},
  year =	 2002,
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/yu02a.pdf},
  abstract =	 {For agents to function effectively in large and open
                  networks, they must ensure that their
                  correspondents, i.e., the agents they interact with,
                  are trustworthy. Since no central authorities may
                  exist, the only way agents can find trustworthy
                  correspondents is by collaborating with others to
                  identify those whose past behavior has been
                  untrustworthy. In other words, finding trustworthy
                  correspondents reduces to the problem of distributed
                  reputation management. Our approach adapts the
                  mathematical theory of evidence to represent and
                  propagate the ratings that agents give to their
                  correspondents. When evaluating the trustworthiness
                  of a correspondent, an agent combines its local
                  evidence (based on direct prior interactions with
                  the correspondent) with the testimonies of other
                  agents regarding the same correspondent. We
                  experimentally studied this approach to establish
                  that some important properties of trust are captured
                  by it.},
  keywords =     {multiagent trust},
  cluster = 	 {3238024299123510426}
}