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What is Multiagent Systems (MAS)

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Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments
have been studied in the field of distributed AI for more than 30 years (Weiss, 1999; Sun & Finnie, 2004). Recently, the term MAS is used for all types of systems composed of multiple agents showing the following characteristics (Sun & Finnie, 2004): Each agent has incomplete capabilities to solve a problem; There is no global system control over agents; Data are decentralized; Computation is asynchronous.
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Engineering of Experience Based Trust for E-Commerce
Zhaohao Sun (University Of Ballarat, Australia ), Jun Han (Beihang University, China), Dong Dong (Hebei Normal University, China ), and Shuliang Zhao (Hebei Normal University, China)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-669-3.ch014
Abstract
Trust is significant for sustainable development of e-commerce and has received increasing attention in e-commerce, multiagent systems (MAS), and artificial intelligence (AI). However, little attention has been given to the theoretical foundation and intelligent techniques for trust in e-commerce from a viewpoint of intelligent systems and engineering. This chapter will fill this gap by examining engineering of experience-based trust in e-commerce from the viewpoint of intelligent systems. It looks at knowledgebased trust, inference-based trust and their interrelationships with experience-based trust. It also examines scalable trust in e-commerce. It proposes a knowledge based model of trust in e-commerce and a system architecture for METSE: a multiagent system for experience-based trust in e-commerce. The proposed approach in this chapter will facilitate research and development of trust, multiagent systems, e-commerce and e-services.
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