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On the integration of trust with negotiation, argumentation and semantics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2013

Piero Bonatti ,
Eugenio Oliveira ,
Jordi Sabater-Mir ,
Carles Sierra  and
Francesca Toni
Piero Bonatti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Universitá di Napoli Federico II, Via Claudio 21, I-80125 Napoli, Italy; e-mail: bonatti@na.infn.it
Eugenio Oliveira
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science (DEI), Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal; e-mail: eco@fe.up.pt
Jordi Sabater-Mir
Affiliation:
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola, Catalonia, Spain; e-mail: jsabater@iiia.csic.es, sierra@iiia.csic.es
Carles Sierra
Affiliation:
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Cerdanyola, Catalonia, Spain; e-mail: jsabater@iiia.csic.es, sierra@iiia.csic.es
Francesca Toni
Affiliation:
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK; e-mail: ft@imperial.ac.uk
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Abstract

Agreement Technologies are needed for autonomous agents to come to mutually acceptable agreements, typically on behalf of humans. These technologies include trust computing, negotiation, argumentation and semantic alignment. In this paper, we identify a number of open questions regarding the integration of computational models and tools for trust computing with negotiation, argumentation and semantic alignment. We consider these questions in general and in the context of applications in open, distributed settings such as the grid and cloud computing.

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The Knowledge Engineering Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 31 - 50
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