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, Volume 35, Issue 1, pp 253–266 | Cite as

The Semantics of Untrustworthiness

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Abstract

We offer a formal treatment of the semantics of both complete and incomplete mistrustful or distrustful information transmissions. The semantics of such relations is analysed in view of rules that define the behaviour of a receiving agent. We justify this approach in view of human agent communications and secure system design. We further specify some properties of such relations.

Keywords

Trust Mis- and Distrust Information Transmission Expertise Secure System Design 
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Acknowledgments

The first author wishes to thank the participants to the Fifth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information held at the University of Hertfordshire where this paper was first presented, for useful comments and discussions. The second author wishes to thank Jan de Winter for comments on previous versions of the paper. Both authors would like to thank the reviewers for their comments that helped improve the manuscript.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceMiddlesex UniversityLondonUK
  2. 2.Centre for Logic and Philosophy of ScienceGhent UniversityGhentBelgium

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