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Table 1 Abbreviations

From: A decentralized trustworthiness estimation model for open, multiagent systems (DTMAS)

Abbreviation

Description

A

Society of Agents

AD

Honest witness

BSI

Basic Suspension Interval

D

Depth

DT

The direct trust estimation

DTMAS

Decentralized Trustworthiness Estimation Model for Open, Multi-agent Systems

FOCET

Functional Ontology of Context for Evaluating Trust

FT

Fraudulent Threshold

HT

Honesty Threshold

IT

The Indirect Trust estimation

IV

Transaction Importance

MANET

Mobile Ad-hoc NETwork

MAS

Multi-agent System

MC

Monte Carlo

MDP

Markov Decision Process

PNT

The reduction fraction of the reported trust

r

rating

RF

Referee

RL

Reinforcement Learning

RM

Relevancy Matrix

RT

Reported Trust

ST

Satisfactory Threshold

SUS

Suspension penalty

T

Set of possible tasks

TD

Temporal-difference

TE

Trustee

TR

Truster

TRAVOS

Trust and Reputation in the Context of Inaccurate Information Sources

IT

Integrated Trustworthiness Estimation

UG

Utility Gain

TD

Temporal-difference

WDT

Witnesses Differences Threshold

WFT

Witnesses Fraudulence Threshold

WHT

Witnesses Honesty Threshold

WM

Weight Matrix

ZRP

Zone Routing Protocol