"Ranking-Based Partner Selection Strategy in Open, Dynamic and Sociable" by Qin Liang, Wen Gu et al.
Agents with limited capacities need to cooperate with others to fulfil complex tasks in a multi-agent system. To find a reliable partner, agents with insufficient experience have to seek advice from advisors. Currently, most models are rating-based, aggregating advisors’ information on partners and calculating averaged results. These models have some drawbacks, like being vulnerable to unfair ratings under a high ratio of dishonest advisors or dynamic attacks and locally convergent. Therefore, this paper proposes a Ranking-based Partner Selection (RPS) model, which clusters honest and dishon...
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