The exchange of agent behaviors’ appreciations between agents is an increasing need as multiagents system applications grow and are used in different situations. Discriminating agents with a harmful behavior to the society, those who don’t commit or don’t complete there assignments, from those who do it in a good way, is a desirable and often necessary capacity. In this work we’ll present a fle...

in this study, we addressed the relationship between corporate reputation and customer behavioral intentions in the eghtesad novin bank. for this purpose, we considered the components: trust, identification and commitment as mediator variables that led to formulating 8 hypothesis .the research population was the customers of eghtesad novin bank in tehran branches who had at least one active acc...

SocialX is a web application supporting social-collaborative and cooperative aspects of e-learning, such as sharing and reuse of (solutions to) single exercises, and development of projects by group-work and social exchange. Such aspects are supported in the framework of a reputation system, in which learners participate. We describe design and motivational issues of the system, show implementa...

As more and more P2P applications being popular in Internet, one of important problem to be solved is inspiring users to cooperate each other actively and honestly, the reputation mechanism which is a hot spot for P2P research has been proposed to conquer it. Because of the characters of virtuality and anonymous in the network, it is very easy for users with bad reputations to reenter the syste...

Trust is required in file sharing peer-to-peer (P2P) systems to achieve better cooperation among peers and reduce malicious uploads. In reputation-based P2P systems, reputation is used to build trust among peers based on their past transactions and feedbacks from other peers. In these systems, reputable peers will usually be selected to upload requested files, decreasing significantly malicious...

The focus of the paper is to investigate the design of current merchant reputation systems on shopping agent websites. The study explores their roles and impacts in customer decisionmaking process, identifies their rating methodology and rating reliability. The findings will help industrial practitioners for their design of merchant reputation systems, and will benefit online shoppers and e-mer...

Organisational models cannot only be used to structure multiagent systems but also to express behaviour constraints for agents in open environments. However, sometimes these behaviour constraints cannot be exhaustively enforced, and some agents may transgress the norms put forward by a Virtual Organisation. This poses an additional burden on agents, as they cannot be sure that their acquaintanc...

In the present study, we examined whether social categorization based on university affiliation can induce an advantage in recognizing faces. Moreover, we investigated how the reputation or location of the university affected face recognition performance using an old/new paradigm. We assigned five different university labels to the faces: participants' own university and four other universities...

This study aims to identify factors that are relevant to Mäori trust in terms of improving and encouraging the online shopping for B2C e-commerce by Mäori in New Zealand. The concepts of trust, risk and reputation are used to frame an exploratory study of the uptake of Internet shopping in a B2C context by Mäori, a minority but significant racial group, in New Zealand. The research presents a s...