An integrated trust establishment model for the internet of agents

The Internet of Agents (IoA) is an emerging field of research that extends the concept of Internet of Things (IoT) by augmenting internal reasoning and intelligence capability to, traditionally, naïve things used in IoT. In a fully automated IoA environment, agents tend to choose trustworthy partners to rely on for fulfilling their objectives, particularly when the agents cannot guarantee that potential interacting partners share the same core beliefs or make accurate statements regarding their competence and abilities. Trust establishment mechanisms can be used to direct trustees, rather than trustors, to build a higher level of trust and have greater impact on the results of their interactions when such interactions are based on trust. This paper presents ITE, a trust establishment model that integrates the two major sources of information to produce a comprehensive assessment of a trustor’s needs in IoA. Specifically, ITE attempts to incorporate explicit and implicit feedbacks to provide trust establishment under a wider range of circumstances.