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This paper introduces rational communication among agents in multi-agent semi-competitive environments. In such environments, agents have both incentives to be honest and to be dishonest. Therefore, agents need to decide whether or not to trust other agents. This paper differentiates the concepts of reputation, impression and trust; proposes to include the agent’s attitude towards risk in deriving the trustworthiness from the impression of another agent; and proposes to integrate an agent’s impression towards the message sender, the agent’s attitude towards risk, and the utility brought by believing the message in making decisions on whether to believe a message and change its action based on the message. These mimic the model in human interactions.
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Lam, Km., Leung, Hf. (2003). Honesty, Trust, and Rational Communication in Multiagent Semi-competitive Environments. In: Lee, J., Barley, M. (eds) Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. PRIMA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2891. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39896-7_14
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