Trust-based fusion of untrustworthy information in crowdsourcing applications

  • Authors:
  • Matteo Venanzi;Alex Rogers;Nicholas R. Jennings

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we address the problem of fusing untrustworthy reports provided from a crowd of observers, while simultaneously learning the trustworthiness of individuals. To achieve this, we construct a likelihood model of the users's trustworthiness by scaling the uncertainty of its multiple estimates with trustworthiness parameters. We incorporate our trust model into a fusion method that merges estimates based on the trust parameters and we provide an inference algorithm that jointly computes the fused output and the individual trustworthiness of the users based on the maximum likelihood framework. We apply our algorithm to cell tower local- isation using real-world data from the OpenSignal project and we show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy, by up to 21%, and consistency, by up to 50% of its predictions.