Tool for simulating reputation management algorithms

We focus on the trust relationships between the agents interactions. Agents make a trust decision before interacting, and this decision among other factors is based on an estimation of another agents reputation. A reputation management system collects and analyzes interactions experience between agents. We suggest evaluation criteria for a trust or reputation management systems evaluation. We implement a generic tool which can plug in a trust or reputation management algorithm and simulate the behaviour of the multiagent system where every agent follows the same algorithm. We illustrate the tools support for some of the suggested evaluation criteria. We provide some recommendations for further development of the generic tool for evaluating and comparing the above-mentioned behaviour characteristics of different trust and reputation management algorithms.

Liliya Rudko obtained her Master's Degree in Information Technology in 2013, University of Helsinki. After that she decided to move from theory to practice and started to work for different international projects in the field of Information Technology.