A trust management model based on multi-agent system

Abstract

In the distributing environment, trust is very important for enterprises cooperation. Therefore, in the electronic commerce system, it becomes the key problem to promote enterprise cooperate, which is how to collect necessity of the information for ensuring trust relation, dynamic management, maintenance trust relation, and how to reduce the cooperation risk. This paper advances a trust management model based on multi-agent system. In the paper, first, the initialize trust value is calculated by fuzzy algorithm for improving its veracity; second, the trade history is collected by validated model of information dependability for preventing occur cheat. Follow simulation and comparative, in this model, cooperate efficiency of the system will rise, and the payoff of every agent will be enlarged. © 2008 IEEE.