Computer Science – Multiagent Systems
Scientific paper
2008-01-19
P. Li\'o et al. editors, BIOWIRE 2007, LNCS 5151, pages 340-351, Springer--Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Computer Science
Multiagent Systems
12 pages
Scientific paper
10.1007/978-3-540-92191-2_30
We investigate the problem of autonomous agents processing pieces of information that may be corrupted (tainted). Agents have the option of contacting a central database for a reliable check of the status of the message, but this procedure is costly and therefore should be used with parsimony. Agents have to evaluate the risk of being infected, and decide if and when communicating partners are affordable. Trustability is implemented as a personal (one-to-one) record of past contacts among agents, and as a mean-field monitoring of the level of message corruption. Moreover, this information is slowly forgotten in time, so that at the end everybody is checked against the database. We explore the behavior of a homogeneous system in the case of a fixed pool of spreaders of corrupted messages, and in the case of spontaneous appearance of corrupted messages.
Bagnoli Franco
Guazzini Andrea
Lio' Pietro
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