Affinity, Trust, and Information

Information Sources: Trust and Meta-trust Dimensions

We start from the claim that trust in information sources is in fact just a kind of social trust. We are interested in the fact that the relevance and the trustworthiness of the information acquired by an agent X from a source F, strictly depends and derives from the X’s trust in F with respect the kind of that information. Even if, of course, we have also to consider the potential (positive an...

Agents, Information and Trust

Trust measures the relationship between commitment and perceived execution of contracts, and is the foundation for the confidence that an agent has in signing a contract. Negotiation is an information exchange process as well as a proposal exchange process. A rich decision model for intelligent agents involved in multi issue negotiations is described. The model, grounded on information theory, ...

Trust in online information

Information Merging with Trust

The goal of the present paper is to propose a new framework for information merging based on trust networks. This is a special instance of a more general paradigm called deep merging by Weydert. The idea is to see merging not just as an operation on – even prioritized – multi-sets of domain assertions, but as a function exploiting in addition more sophisticated background information about the ...

Consumer Trust and Online Information Privacy

Getting consumers to disclose their personal information is an essential first step for Internet businesses that choose to pursue a niche marketing strategy. Previous research has examined how the reward preferences and privacy concerns of consumers may affect their disclosure tendency. However, it is not known how key characteristics pertaining to Internet businesses, such as consumer trust, m...