@ARTICLE{gruenert2006decentralized,
  author = {Andreas Grünert and Sebastian Hudert and Stefan König and Sven Kaffille
	and Guido Wirtz},
  title = {Decentralized Reputation Management for cooperating Software Agents
	in open Multi-Agent Systems},
  journal = {International Transactions on Systems Science and Applications},
  year = {2006},
  volume = {1},
  pages = {363-368},
  number = {4},
  abstract = {Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) promise a new advance in distributed computing.
	In MAS autonomous software agents flexibly cooperate, coordinate
	and compete to provide the desired function(s) of such a system.
	If some components of a MAS fail or do not provide the  desired
	functionality, the system is expected to autonomously deal with
	this situation. It is desirable to reduce occurrences of such situations
	by selecting trustworthy cooperation partners before cooperating
	with them. This becomes even more crucial in  open MAS in which
	arbitrary heterogeneous software agents participate. In order to
	monitor agent behavior and enable selection of trustworthy cooperation
	partners, trust management services  can be applied. As there is
	no central control in an open MAS and it is completely distributed,
	these services itself have to be distributed. This paper proposes
	a fully distributed reputation management service for open MAS based
	on peer-to-peer technology.},
}