Collective Trust Behavior

Collective Trust and Normative Agents

Collective Behavior

The resurgence of interest in collective behavior is in large part due to tools recently made available for conducting laboratory experiments on groups, statistical methods for analyzing large data sets reflecting social interactions, the rapid growth of a diverse variety of online self-organized collectives, and computational modeling methods for understanding both universal and scenario-speci...

Collective Behavior

When modelling a system, often there are properties and operations related to a group of objects rather than to a single object only. For example, given a person object with an income property, the average income applies to a group of persons as a whole rather than to a single person. In this paper we propose to extend programming languages with the notion of collective behavior. Collective beh...

Using Collective Trust for Group Formation

Group formation is a difficult task that arises in many different contexts. It is either done manually or using methods based on individual users’ criteria. Users may not be willing to fill a profile or their profile may evolve with time without users updating it. A collaboration may also fail for personal reasons between users with compatible profiles as it may be a success between antagonist ...

Learning from Collective Behavior

Inspired by longstanding lines of research in sociology and related fields, and by more recent largepopulation human subject experiments on the Internet and the Web, we initiate a study of the computational issues in learning to model collective behavior from observed data. We define formal models for efficient learning in such settings, and provide both general theory and specific learning alg...