A many valued representation and propagation of trust and distrust

  • Authors:
  • Martine De Cock;Paulo Pinheiro da Silva

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium;Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • WILF'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Fuzzy Logic and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

As the amount of information on the web grows, users may find increasing challenges in trusting and sometimes distrusting sources. One possible aid is to maintain a network of trust between sources. In this paper, we propose to model such a network as an intuitionistic fuzzy relation. This allows to elegantly handle together the problem of ignorance, i.e. not knowing whether to trust or not, and vagueness, i.e. trust as a matter of degree. We pay special attention to deriving trust information through a trusted third party, which becomes especially challenging when distrust is involved.