Formal Analysis of Trust Dynamics in Human and Software Agent Experiments

  • Authors:
  • Tibor Bosse;Catholijn M. Jonker;Jan Treur;Dmytro Tykhonov

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Man-Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, Delft, The Netherlands;Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam, 1081HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Man-Machine Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology, Mekelweg 4, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • CIA '07 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XI
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recognizing that trust states are mental states, this paper presents a formal analysis of the dynamics of trust in terms of the functional roles and representation relations for trust states. This formal analysis is done both in a logical framework and in a mathematical framework based on integral and differential equations. Furthermore, the paper presents formal specifications of a number of relevant dynamic properties of trust. The specifications provided were used to perform automated formal analysis of empirical and simulated data from two case studies, one involving two experiments with humans, and one involving simulation experiments in the context of an economic game.