An Agent Based Trust Management System for Multi-Agent Based Virtual Communities

International audienceThe success of a virtual community relies on collaboration and resource sharing principals, making trust a priority for each member. Such systems need a flexible trust model wherein trust policies are automatically adapted and where both individual and collective trust requirements are considered in the decision making-process. This paper reports our on-going efforts in that direction. It presents an agent based Adaptive and Socially-Compliant Trust Management System (ASC-TMS) for multi-agent based virtual communities