▪ Abstract Sociologists often model social processes as interactions among variables. We
review an alternative approach that models social life as interactions among adaptive …

Web-based social networks have become popular as a medium for disseminating
information and connecting like-minded people. The public accessibility of such networks …

Despite their many advantages, e-businesses lag behind brick and mortar businesses in
several fundamental respects. This paper concerns one of these: relationships based on …

With the rapid development of E-commerce, more and more people are used to shop**
online, in which the reputation scores of sellers play an important role in hel** consumers …

Negotiation is essential in settings where autonomous agents have conflicting interests and
a desire to cooperate. For this reason, mechanisms in which agents exchange potential …

Since the first edition was published two years ago, much has been done on extend ing the
work done on SMART to address new and important areas [3-5, 54, 79, 80, 108 …

We previously developed a social mechanism for distributed reputation management, in
which an agent combines testimonies from several witnesses to determine its ratings of …

Many recent studies of trust and reputation are made in the context of commercial reputation
or rating systems for online communities. Most of these systems have been constructed …

Reputation has recently received considerable attention within a number of disciplines such
as distributed artificial intelligence, economics, evolutionary biology, among others. Most …

While the idea of computer simulation has had enormous influence on most areas of
science, and even on the public imagination through its use in computer games such as …