Managing the pedigree and quality of information in dynamic information sharing environments

  • Authors:
  • Bin Yu;Srikanth Kallurkar;Ganesh Vaidyanathan;Donald Steiner

  • Affiliations:
  • Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE;Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE;Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE;Quantum Leap Innovations, Inc., Newark, DE

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The quality of information is crucial for decision making in many mission-critical applications such as battlefield operations and intelligence analysis. However, as the system becomes larger and more diverse, it is becoming increasingly difficult to assess the quality of information from various operators or data sources. In this paper we propose an agent-based approach to managing the quality of information, e.g., its trustworthiness, in network centric information sharing environments, where software agents collaborate with each other to automatically represent and assess the trustworthiness of information from its pedigree within the framework of Dempster-Shafer theory.