Description

Dissertation written in third year of MEng Computer Science degree.

Playgrou nd Politics is a research-based project designed to find the best performing trust metric and prioritisation method out of a small selection of those defined in academic literature. This is done by building a multi-agent system for experimentation based on the idea of teachers and students in a school environment. Experiments carried out proved that the first in first out prioritisation method was the most efficient, but did not conclusively prove which trust metric was the best, only that the certified reputation metric was the worst-performing.