Geert Hofstede’s five-dimensional framework is widely used in social sciences and management science to characterize cultures. It has been suggested to build culturally consistent agent characters based on his framework. This chapter stresses the relevance of culture and trust for trade, substantiates why a dimensional model offers a good basis for cultural differentiation of agents, and presen...

In this thesis, we build an agent-based framework to model trust-based interaction among people in a social network. We assume that trust is one person’s expectancy that another person will behave in a way that a good outcome for both people is achieved. The social network is represented by a weighted graph in which the nodes are the agents and the links reflect the strength of trust relationsh...

History-based trust establishment aims at using unlinkable recommendations and proofs of context in order to build trust based on human notions of trust: when two persons meet for the first time, they exchange information on their acquaintances, interest and context in order to find some shared experience on which to build trust. This paper focuses on two central aspects of trust establishment:...

We have witnessed considerable research investigating trust between agents in multi-agent systems. However, the issue of trust between agents and users has rarely been reported in the literature. In this paper, we describe our experiences with ITRUST, a multi-agent artificial market system whose software broker agent can learn to build a relatively long-term trust relationship with their client...

This paper models a supply network as a complex adaptive system (CAS), in which firms or agents interact with one another and adapt themselves. And it applies agent-based social simulation (ABSS), a research method of simulating social systems under the CAS paradigm, to observe emergent outcomes. The main purposes of this paper are to consider a social factor, trust, in modeling the agents' beh...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) enables cooperation in an open and highly concurrent context. In this paper, we investigate the management of personal information by an SOA service consumer while invoking composed services, where we will study the balance between quality of service (that works better when provided with our personal data) and the consumer’s data access policy.We present a se...