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Given the distributed and dynamic nature of SOC, and the autonomy of the agents involved, it is inevitable that failures will sometimes occur. Such failures might be due to simple errors or bugs, or may be a result of explicit malicious behaviour on behalf of an agent. In this chapter we introduce a number of future directions that will support the management of SOC by defining and constraining interactions (contracts), assessing and reducing the risk of failure (trust and reputation), and defining the responsibilities of the agents involved (accountability).

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The research described in this section is partly supported by the Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), China. The opinions expressed herein are those of the named author only and should not be taken as necessarily representative of the opinion of Tsinghua University.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

    Nathan Griffiths

  2. Department of Computer Science, Coventry University, Coventry, CV1 5FB, UK

    Kuo-Ming Chao

  3. Department of Computer Science, King’s College London, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    Simon Miles, Sanjay Modgil, Nir Oren & Michael Luck

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Kwei-Jay Lin

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Griffiths, N. et al. (2010). Future Directions. In: Griffiths, N., Chao, KM. (eds) Agent-Based Service-Oriented Computing. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-041-0_10

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