Formal Specification and Verification of Trust in Multi-Agent Systems

Trust remains one fundamental challenge that is holding back the success of mas. Although the available literature is rich with trust mechanisms and strategies, the notion of trust remains a vague notion. In this paper we try to bring these trust theories to a concrete level. We present a mechanism for specifying and verifying the various trust strategies and mechanisms of the available literature. We show how a dynamic model checker, along with the interaction and deontic models of multi-agent systems, may be used to achieve this.