Clustering recommendations to compute agent reputation

Punam Bedi; Harmeet Kaur

doi:10.1117/12.603336

28 March 2005 Clustering recommendations to compute agent reputation

Punam Bedi, Harmeet Kaur

Proceedings Volume 5803, Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications III; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603336
Event: Defense and Security, 2005, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Traditional centralized approaches to security are difficult to apply to multi-agent systems which are used nowadays in e-commerce applications. Developing a notion of trust that is based on the reputation of an agent can provide a softer notion of security that is sufficient for many multi-agent applications. Our paper proposes a mechanism for computing reputation of the trustee agent for use by the trustier agent. The trustier agent computes the reputation based on its own experience as well as the experience the peer agents have with the trustee agents. The trustier agents intentionally interact with the peer agents to get their experience information in the form of recommendations. We have also considered the case of unintentional encounters between the referee agents and the trustee agent, which can be directly between them or indirectly through a set of interacting agents. The clustering is done to filter off the noise in the recommendations in the form of outliers. The trustier agent clusters the recommendations received from referee agents on the basis of the distances between recommendations using the hierarchical agglomerative method. The dendogram hence obtained is cut at the required similarity level which restricts the maximum distance between any two recommendations within a cluster. The cluster with maximum number of elements denotes the views of the majority of recommenders. The center of this cluster represents the reputation of the trustee agent which can be computed using c-means algorithm.

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Punam Bedi and Harmeet Kaur "Clustering recommendations to compute agent reputation", Proc. SPIE 5803, Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications III, (28 March 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.603336

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