Trust models and applications in communication and multi-agent systems

Abstract

We give a review of recent literature on the subject of trust in computational interactions between human and artificial autonomous agents, or between artificial autonomous agents. Trust is a central question in the development of an ethical approach to the design of multi-agent autonomous systems, which must lead to safe and sound interactions, and the development of secure systems based on ethically sound behavior design. The topic treatment in the literature is extensive and from a multitude of points of view, therefore the presented review may be falling short in many regards. We have focused on two main axes to organize the references: computational models and applications. Besides we have focused on various specific topics found in the literature.