The Problem with All-or-Nothing Trust Games: What Others Choose Not to Do Matters in Trust-Based Exchange

"Do you trust me or not?" - Trust games in agent societies

Multi-agent simulation provides a way to explore results from social studies and provide hints on how these results scale. One particular class of studies that is interesting to explore are economicrelated studies. We developed a multi-agent system that simulates an investment game and incorporates the results from economic-related social studies into the design of the agents. We analyzed how s...

To trust or not to trust.

Do Not Trust All Simulation Studies of Telecommunication Networks

Since the birth of ARPANET and the first commercial applications of computer networks, through explosion of popularity of the Internet and wireless communications, we have witnessed increasing dependence of our civilization on information services of telecommunication networks. Their efficiency and reliability have become critically important for the well-being and prosperity of societies as we...

Merging Similarity and Trust Based Social Networks to Enhance the Accuracy of Trust-Aware Recommender Systems

In recent years, collaborative filtering (CF) methods are important and widely accepted techniques are available for recommender systems. One of these techniques is user based that produces useful recommendations based on the similarity by the ratings of likeminded users. However, these systems suffer from several inherent shortcomings such as data sparsity and cold start problems. With the dev...

'In God we trust, all others (must) bring data'.