9 research outputs found
Local and Global Trust Based on the Concept of Promises
We use the notion of a promise to define local trust between agents
possessing autonomous decision-making. An agent is trustworthy if it is
expected that it will keep a promise. This definition satisfies most
commonplace meanings of trust. Reputation is then an estimation of this
expectation value that is passed on from agent to agent.
Our definition distinguishes types of trust, for different behaviours, and
decouples the concept of agent reliability from the behaviour on which the
judgement is based. We show, however, that trust is fundamentally heuristic, as
it provides insufficient information for agents to make a rational judgement. A
global trustworthiness, or community trust can be defined by a proportional,
self-consistent voting process, as a weighted eigenvector-centrality function
of the promise theoretical graph
Process management and orchestration
Process automation is a concept used in logistics that has been adopted in
some data centre management software suites recently as âOrchestration managersâ.
This project is about mapping out and comparing approaches to process
management. Specifically, two popular and very different process modelling
methods were compared. One is the BPMN (Business Process Management
Notation) that uses the traditional method to model the process in a flow.
The other is the Promise Theory that models the process in a network of interacting
autonomous agents. Our research question is whatâs the differences
between two methods. We used Promise Theory in two ways: as a framework
for discussing modeling of processes, and as a tool for modeling. Results
show that Promise Theory can model more features of a process than BPMN.
Promise Theory with fewer symbols is easier to learn but requires more thinking
when using than BPMN. Under the circumstances where there are many
asynchronous activities or many agents/roles involved in the process, Promise
Theory has better performance to model the agentsâ autonomous behavior and
the interaction between them.Master i nettverks- og systemadministrasjo