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In social commerce systems, integrity is an important quality factor to ensure trust and reputation. Buyer agents need to trust Seller agents before performing online purchases. Since the interaction and transaction are performed online, there are certain conditions due to the dynamic of Seller agent activities and preferences that affect integrity. Hence, in this research, a solution is proposed to detect Seller agent integrity violations during runtime. Identifiability, interaction availability, trustability and information accessibility are some of the identified requirements that contribute to agent integrity. The proposed solution includes the definition of integrity as Seller agent quality properties and the implementation of Runtime Verification and Quality Assessment process. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is evaluated by implementing the checking and assessment process within social commerce system model.
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The Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under research Fundamental Research Grant Scheme 4F904 are hereby acknowledged for some of the facilities that were utilized during the course of this research work.
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Bakar, N.A., Selamat, M.H., Selamat, A. (2017). Runtime Verification and Quality Assessment for Checking Agent Integrity in Social Commerce System. In: Nguyen, N., Tojo, S., Nguyen, L., Trawiński, B. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10191. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54472-4_15
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