In open environments, agents depend on reputation and trust mechanisms to evaluate the
behavior of potential partners. The scientific research in this field has considerably …

This paper reviews work in several disciplines to distinguish between image, reputation and
stigma. It also shows that there has been little research on the process by which area …

Security and privacy issues have become critically important with the fast expansion of
multiagent systems. Most network applications such as pervasive computing, grid …

Fuzzy logic presents many potential applications for modelling and simulation. In particular,
this paper analyses one of the most popular fuzzy logic techniques: Mamdani systems …

Purpose The study aims to explore and test the integrated relationships between university
reputation and its key antecedents. In doing so, theoretically derived antecedents of …

Human-like artificial emotional intelligence is vital for integration of future robots into the
human society. This work introduces a general framework for representation and processing …

Finding reliable partners to interact with in open environments is a challenging task for
software agents, and trust and reputation mechanisms are used to handle this issue. From …

In this work we propose a theory of gossip as a means for social control. Exercising social
control roughly means to isolate and to punish cheaters. However, punishment is costly and …

In open multi-agent systems, agents engage in interactions to share and exchange
information. Due to the fact that these agents are self-interested, they may jeopardize mutual …

We understand a socio-technical system (STS) as a cyber-physical system in which two or
more autonomous parties interact via or about technical elements, including the parties' …