Dear all,

my name is Samuele, I am an italian researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council in Rome. I am writing to let you know about eRep, one of our current research project on reputation, funded by the EU under the 6th Framework Programme. Our work is reaching the 12th month of development, and thus it's time for some evaluation! :-)

Hereby a brief description of the project:

eRep is an FP6 European Research Project aimed at providing theory-driven and empirically backed-up guidelines for designing
reputation technology.

An inter- and multi-disciplinary consortium provides the project with
an innovative approach, agent-based computational instruments to be used for:

   1. theory-building, namely formulating hypotheses concerning the
generation, spreading and impact of reputation under given social and
technological conditions;
   2. testing these hypotheses on the grounds of cross-methodological
experiments;
   3. transferring knowledge thanks to both a computational
proof-of-concept system and the guidelines specified in the White Book.

Immediate impact of the project is to contribute to the governance of
electronic institutions (e.g. auction sites, discussion forums,
recommendation sites, social networks, etc.). Future scientific added
value of the project is expected to consist in advances of reputation
theory and technology for multi agent systems.

Check out the Project's website for more information.

Regards

Samuele Marmo

ISTC-CNR
Laboratory for Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS)
Via San Martino della Battaglia, 44
00185 Rome, Italy
+39 06 44 595 278