Finding reliable partners to interact with in open environments is a challenging task for
software agents, and trust and reputation mechanisms are used to handle this issue. From …

In open and dynamic multiagent systems (MASs), agents often need to rely on resources or
services provided by other agents to accomplish their goals. During this process, agents are …

During the past decade, online trust and reputation systems have provided cogent answers
to emerging challenges in the global computing infrastructures relating to computer and …

Reputation-based trust models are widely used in e-commerce applications, and feedback
ratings are aggregated to compute sellers' reputation trust scores. The “all good reputation” …

We study the problem of affective content analysis. In this paper, we think of affective
contents as those video/audio segments, which may cause an audience's strong reactions …

In digital healthcare systems, the patients face significant problems identifying an optimal
vacant and available slot for their appointment as the number of patient requests directly …

The reputation-oriented trust issue is critical to e-commerce applications and has drawn
much attention from both industry and the research community. Existing e-commerce …

In group decision-making (GDM) problems, experts need to communicate and adjust their
opinions in order to achieve consensus on the final decision-making output. Since experts …

Trust management is an extensively investigated topic. A lot of trust models and systems
have been proposed in the literature. However, a universally agreed trust model is rarely …

Multi-agent systems have attracted the attention of researchers because of agents'
automatic, pro-active, and dynamic problem solving behaviors. Consequently, there has …