BLUE: A REPUTATION-BASED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT C2C IN P2P BLUETOOTH NETWORKS

Gianluca Lax, Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè

2006

Abstract

In this paper we propose a multi-agent system, called Blue, providing a reputation mechanism to promote mobile C2C commerce in large and highly dynamic environments based on the Bluetooth wireless technology. In such a scenarios, detecting malicious users assumes a great importance but traditional approaches to obtaining reputation of a user are unfeasible or meaningless. For this purpose, we propose a centralized reputation mechanism, used in a asynchronous way, to manage users’ reputation based on trade feedbacks (given by users) suitably weighted. Agents employ such a reputation mechanism to choose their trade counterparts trying to avoid malicious users. A number of experiments show the effectiveness of our proposal.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lax G. and M. L. Sarnè G. (2006). BLUE: A REPUTATION-BASED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT C2C IN P2P BLUETOOTH NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006) ISBN 978-972-8865-62-7, pages 97-104. DOI: 10.5220/0001426300970104

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ice-b06,
author={Gianluca Lax and Giuseppe M. L. Sarnè},
title={BLUE: A REPUTATION-BASED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT C2C IN P2P BLUETOOTH NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006)},
year={2006},
pages={97-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001426300970104},
isbn={978-972-8865-62-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Business - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2006)
TI - BLUE: A REPUTATION-BASED MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT C2C IN P2P BLUETOOTH NETWORKS
SN - 978-972-8865-62-7
AU - Lax G.
AU - M. L. Sarnè G.
PY - 2006
SP - 97
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0001426300970104