Towards ascertaining risk in digital business ecosystem interactions

In digital business ecosystems architecture, it is rational for the trusting agent to analyse the possible risk in interacting with a probable trusted agent beforehand. Doing so would assist the trusting agent in its decision process. The possible risk in an interaction is a combination of the possibility of failure and the possible consequences of failure in an interaction. In this paper, we propose an approach by which the trusting agent determines the possibility of failure in interacting with a probable trusted agent according to the demand of its future interaction with it