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Journal of Information Science and Engineering, Vol. 30 No. 2, pp. 313-332


A Proposal for Intelligent Agents with Adjusting Self-Reputation Capability for Preventing Fraud in Multi-Agent Societies


SHENG-WEN WANG1, CHUNG-YUAN HUANG2,* AND CHUEN-TSAI SUN1
1Department of Computer Science
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, 300 Taiwan
E-mail: sww0915@gmail.com; ctsun@cs.nctu.edu.tw
2,*Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Chang Gung University
Taoyuan, 333 Taiwan
E-mail: gscott@mail.cgu.edu.tw

 


    Intelligent agents are increasingly being used for tasks such as e-commerce autobidding. Cooperation and defection challenges commonly found in multi-agent systems make the design and construction of a reliable reputation mechanism an important research and engineering goal. Here we describe our proposal for an intelligent agent model that addresses learning issues in terms of self-reputation. The agents in our proposed model are capable of evaluating their behaviors based on a mix of public and private interest considerations, and of testing various solutions aimed at mitigating selfdiscrepancy and meeting social standards. Our results indicate promise for integrating a self-reputation mechanism into a self-learning framework in a manner that encourages the early emergence of social cooperation among multiple agents and specific cooperation with individual agents.


Keywords: intelligent agent, e-commerce, self-reputation, prisoners’ dilemma, multi-agent society, cooperation and defection

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