Reputation in Multi Agent Systems and the Incentives to Provide Feedback
The emergence of the Internet leads to a vast increase in the number of interactions between parties that are completely alien to each other. In general, such transactions are likely to be subject to fraud and cheating. If such systems use computerized rational agents to negotiate and execute transactions, mechanisms that lead to favorable outcomes for all parties instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms. This paper examiThe emergence of the Internet leads to a vast increase in the number of interactions between parties that are completely alien to each other. In general, such transactions are likely to be subject to fraud and cheating. If such systems use computerized rational agents to negotiate and execute transactions, mechanisms that lead to favorable outcomes for all parties instead of giving rise to defective behavior are necessary to make the system work: trust and reputation mechanisms. This paper examines different incentive mechanisms helping these trust and reputation mechanisms in eliciting users to report own experiences honestly.…



| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
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| Author: | Miriam Heitz, Stefan König |
| Year of Completion: | 2009 |
| Series (Volume number) | Bayreuther Arbeitspapiere zur Wirtschaftsinformatik (48) |
| SWD-Keyword: | Reputation; Trust |
| Tag: | Anreize; Reputation; Vertrauen Incentives; Reputation; Trust |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-opus-6486 |
| Document Type: | Bachelor Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 23.12.2009 |





