In past twenty years, the multi-agent technology has been widely employed for the development of web-based systems. Currently, agent-based service-oriented applications have been widely applied in many complex domains such as web-based e-markets, web-based grid computing, e-government and service-oriented software systems, cross Internet and organizations. In this kind of service-oriented syste...

Nowadays, the growth of virtual environments such as virtual organizations, social networks, and ubiquitous computing, has led to the adoption of trust concept. One of the methods of making trust in such environments is to use a long-term relationship with a trusted partner. The main problem of this kind of trust, which is based on personal experiences, is its limited domain. Moreover, both par...

In the past twenty years, the multi-agent technology has been widely employed for developing agent-based systems. Currently, agent-based service-oriented applications have been widely applied in many complex domains such as e-markets, grid computing, e-governments and service-oriented software systems, across Internet and organizations. In this kind of service-oriented multi-agent systems, serv...