Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper
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چکیده
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.
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