EVALUATION OF TRUST POLICIES BY SIMULATION

Cosmin Mogoş, Ina Schieferdecker

2010

Abstract

The evolution of the World Wide Web has created a new environment where people can interact, e.g. talk to their friends, shop online, conduct business meetings, etc. Trust and trustworthiness are central notions in human interaction; in particular, they represent important criteria for every Internet user because of the multitude of choices they are faced with when choosing whom to interact with. This paper presents a simulation model implemented in Ptolemy II for the simulative analysis of trust policies in networked environments, called communication space (CS). The model reflects both the CS structure e.g. principals, roles, and event structure, and the interactions between the elements of CSs. Principal behavior is based on Markov chains and on criteria for selecting peers that initiate transactions. We investigate the efficiency of trust policies based on local observations and evaluation of interactions by examining a case study based on the popular auction site eBay.

References

  1. Arbanowski, S., Ballon, P., David, K., Droegehorn, O., Eertink, H., Kellerer, W., van Kranenburg, H., Raatikainen, K., and Popescu-Zeletin, R. (2004). I-centric communications: personalization, ambient awareness, and adaptability for future mobile services. IEEE Communications Magazine, 42(9):63-69.
  2. Axelrod, R. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Basic Books.
  3. Eilers, F. and Nestmann, U. (2009). Deriving trust from experience. Submitted to the FAST International Workshop.
  4. Fullam, K. K., Klos, T. B., Muller, G., Sabater, J., Schlosser, A., Topol, Z., Barber, K. S., Rosenschein, J. S., Vercouter, L., and Voss, M. (2005). A specification of the agent reputation and trust (art) testbed: experimentation and competition for trust in agent societies. In AAMAS 7805: Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems, pages 512-518, New York, NY, USA. ACM.
  5. Kemeny, J. G. and Snell, J. L. (1983). Chains. Springer.
  6. Krukow, K. (2006). Towards a Theory of Trust for the Global Ubiquitous Computer. PhD thesis, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
  7. Ries S., Kangasharju J., M. M. (2006). A classification of trust systems. In On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: OTM 2006 Workshops, pages 894-903.
  8. Sabater, J. (2004). Toward a test-bed for trust and reputation models. In 7th International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies, pages 101-105.
  9. Schlosser, A., Voss, M., and Brckner, L. (2005). On the simulation of global reputation systems. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 9.
  10. Sun, Y., Han, Z., Yu, W., and Liu, K. (2006). Attacks on trust evaluation in distributed networks. In 40th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pages 1461-1466.
  11. T, L. H., Hylands, C., Lee, E., Liu, J., Liu, X., Neuendorffer, S., Xiong, Y., Zhao, Y., and Zheng, H. (2003). Overview of the ptolemy project.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Mogoş C. and Schieferdecker I. (2010). EVALUATION OF TRUST POLICIES BY SIMULATION . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-674-022-1, pages 178-183. DOI: 10.5220/0002720501780183


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart10,
author={Cosmin Mogoş and Ina Schieferdecker},
title={EVALUATION OF TRUST POLICIES BY SIMULATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2010},
pages={178-183},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002720501780183},
isbn={978-989-674-022-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - EVALUATION OF TRUST POLICIES BY SIMULATION
SN - 978-989-674-022-1
AU - Mogoş C.
AU - Schieferdecker I.
PY - 2010
SP - 178
EP - 183
DO - 10.5220/0002720501780183