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Annotating Cooperative Plans with Trusted Agents

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Cooperation is the single most fundamental characteristic of multi-agent systems, and much work has been done on studying the various aspects involved, from general models of the overall structure of cooperation to detailed analyses of specific components. In our work, we aim to do both — we provide a general model and instantiate each stage in that model. We take the notions of trust and motivation to be fundamental to engendering successful cooperation between autonomous entities, and our model of cooperation accounts for the important roles played by these concepts. This paper focuses in particular on the details of how, based on trust, an agent chooses and keeps track of which agents it may use to assist in the performance of actions that make up a multi-agent plan, and how that information can be used in actually soliciting the assistance.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Nathan Griffiths

  2. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

  3. Cavendish School of Computer Science, Westminster University, London, W1M 8JS, UK

    Mark d’Inverno

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Group of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Interacting Modelling, National Research Council, Viale Marx 15, 00137, Rome, Italy

    Rino Falcone

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems Austin, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Suzanne Barber

  3. Institute for Information Technology, Network Computing Group, National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Building M-50, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Larry Korba

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 940 Main Campus Drive, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA

    Munindar Singh

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Griffiths, N., Luck, M., d’Inverno, M. (2003). Annotating Cooperative Plans with Trusted Agents. In: Falcone, R., Barber, S., Korba, L., Singh, M. (eds) Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice. TRUST 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36609-1_8

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