We need models of trust to facilitate cooperation in multi-agent systems, where agents,
human and artificial, do not know each other beforehand. This paper lists and proposes …

The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view,
just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the …

In this paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision‐making in a social setting that
covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through to …

Cooperation is the fundamental underpinning of multi-agent systems, allowing agents to
interact to achieve their goals. Where agents are self-interested, or potentially unreliable …

In this paper we develop a notion of “objective trust” for Software Agents, that is trust of, or
between, Agents based on actual experiences between those Agents. Experiential objective …

For a software information agent, operating on behalf of a human owner and belonging to a
community of agents, the choice of communicating or not with another agent becomes a …

Emphasis on knowledge and information is one of the challenges of the 21st century to
differentiate the intelligent business enterprises. Enterprises have to develop their …

Engineering projects are organizations where several actors with different professional
fields and know-how work together to carry out the same aim: to develop a new product …

This paper presents a framework that captures how the social nature of agents that are
situated in a multi‐agent environment impacts upon their individual mental states. Roles and …

The work presented in this thesis has been undertaken during my candidature at the
University of Melbourne, although for three months of this period I studied under Frank E …