Propagating multitrust within trust networks

  • Authors:
  • Stefano Bistarelli;Francesco Santini

  • Affiliations:
  • University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, Pescara, Italy;IMT Lucca, Piazza San Ponziano, Lucca, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We suggest the concept of multitrust, which is aimed at computing trust by collectively involving a group of trustees at the same time: the trustor needs the concurrent support of multiple individuals to accomplish its task. We propose Soft Constraint Logic Programming based on semirings as a mean to quickly represent and evaluate trust propagation for this scenario. To attain this, we model the trust network adapting it to a weighted and-or graph, where the weight on a connector corresponds to the trust feedback value among the connected nodes. Semirings are the parametric and flexible structures used to appropriately represent trust metrics.