Authors:
Sarah Edenhofer
1
;
Christopher Stifter
1
;
Sven Tomforde
1
;
Jan Kantert
2
;
Christian Müller-Schloer
2
and
Jörg Hähner
1
Affiliations:
1
University of Augsburg, Germany
;
2
Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Keyword(s):
Multi-Agent Systems, Trust, Cooperation, Coordination, Self-organising Systems, Organic Computing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cooperation and Coordination
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Operational Research
;
Self Organizing Systems
;
Simulation
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Open, distributed systems face the challenge to maintain an appropriate operation performance even in the presence of bad behaving or malicious agents. A promising mechanism to counter the resulting negative impact of such agents is to establish technical trust. In this paper, we investigate strategies to improve the efficiency of trust mechanisms regarding the isolation of undesired participants by means of reputation and accusation techniques. We demonstrate the potential benefit of the developed techniques within simulations of a Trusted Desktop Computing Grid.