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A Fuzzy Approach to a Belief-Based Trust Computation

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Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice (TRUST 2002)

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The approaches to the trust study are various and very different each of other. In our view, just a socio-cognitive approach to trust would be able to analyze the sub-components (the basic beliefs) on which the final decision to trust or not is taken. In this paper we show a first implementation and advance of the socio-cognitive model of trust developed in [1],[ 2] using the so-called Fuzzy Cognitive Maps. With this implementation we show how the different components may change and how their impact can change depending from the specific situation and from the agent personality.

This paper has been partially founded by the European Project ALFEBIITE (A Logical Framework for Ethical Behaviour between Infohabitants in the Information Trading Economy of the Universal Information Ecosystem): IST-1999-10298; by the Progetto MIUR 40% “Agenti software e commercio elettronico” and by the PAR project of the University of Siena.

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  1. Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, CNR, viale Marx 15, Roma

    Rino Falcone, Giovanni Pezzulo & Cristiano Castelfranchi

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  1. Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Group of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive and Interacting Modelling, National Research Council, Viale Marx 15, 00137, Rome, Italy

    Rino Falcone

  2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Laboratory for Intelligent Processes and Systems Austin, University of Texas at Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Suzanne Barber

  3. Institute for Information Technology, Network Computing Group, National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Building M-50, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada

    Larry Korba

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 940 Main Campus Drive, Suite 110, Raleigh, NC, 27606, USA

    Munindar Singh

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Falcone, R., Pezzulo, G., Castelfranchi, C. (2003). A Fuzzy Approach to a Belief-Based Trust Computation. In: Falcone, R., Barber, S., Korba, L., Singh, M. (eds) Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice. TRUST 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36609-1_7

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