TRR: An integrated Reliability-Reputation Model for Agent Societies

Several reliability-reputation models to support agents' decisions have been proposed in the past and many of them combine together reliability and reputation in a synthetic trust measure. In this context, we present a new trust model, called TRR, that considers, from a mathematical viewpoint, the interdependence between these two trust measures. This important feature of TRR is exploited to dynamically compute a parameter determining the importance of the reliability with respect to the reputation. Some experiments performed on the well-known ART platform show the advantages, in terms of effectiveness, introduced by the TRR approach.