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Trust-based Negotiation in Multiagent Systems: A Systematic Review

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Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection (PAAMS 2023)

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Abstract

In this work, we conducted a systematic review on trust-based negotiation in Multiagent Systems (MAS), through a bibliometric analysis over the past 25 years of research publications, on three of the most popular scientific databases (Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science). Our analysis reveals that this research topic is regaining interest, after some oscillating years, and the impact of its contributions is equivalent to other equally important research variants like ontology and argumentation (in a negotiation scenario). Discarding the human-to-agent trust challenges, we only focus on agent-to-agent trust concepts, and we performed an analysis of the different types of trust dimensions, using the findings and concerns of past review works, as we identify and select the dimensions that, in our opinion, have the most potential to lead the research advances on the topic of trust in MAS. Furthermore, we discuss the current challenges and open issues associated with those trust dimensions, and how current advancements in the literature could provide insights for the solution of those challenges, or even the finding of new research paths.

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This work has been supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) through the Projects UIDB/04728/2020, UIDP/04728/2020, and the Ricardo Barbosa doctoral Grant with the reference UI/BD/154187/2022.

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  2. ALGORITMI Center, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Ricardo Barbosa & Paulo Novais

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Barbosa, R., Santos, R., Novais, P. (2023). Trust-based Negotiation in Multiagent Systems: A Systematic Review. In: Durães, D., González-Briones, A., Lujak, M., El Bolock, A., Carneiro, J. (eds) Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Cognitive Mimetics. The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1838. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37593-4_11

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