Reasoning about trust using argumentation: a position paper

  • Authors:
  • Simon Parsons;Peter McBurney;Elizabeth Sklar

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer & Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY;Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom;Department of Computer & Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

  • Venue:
  • ArgMAS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Trust is a mechanism for managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely studied in multiagent systems and related fields such as the semantic web. Managing information about trust involves inference with uncertain information, decision making, and dealing with commitments and the provenance of information, all areas to which systems of argumentation have been applied. Here we discuss the application of argumentation to reasoning about trust, identifying some of the components that an argumentation-based system for reasoning about trust would need to contain and sketching the work that would be required to provide such a system.