Reasoning about Uncertain Information and Conflict Resolution through Trust Revision
Reasoning about Uncertain Information and Conflict Resolution through Trust Revision
In information driven MAS, information consumers collect information about their environment from various sources such as sensors. However, there is no guarantee that a source will provide the requested information truthfully and correctly. Even if information is provided only by trustworthy sources, it can contain conflicts that hamper its usability. In this paper, we propose to exploit such conflicts to revise trust in information. This requires a reasoning mechanism that can accommodate domain constraints, uncertainty, and trust. Our formalism - 5DL-Lite - is an extension of a tractable subset of Description Logics with Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. SDL-Lite allows reasoning about uncertain information and enables conflict detection. Then, we propose methods for conflict resolution through trust revision and analyse them through simulations. We show that the proposed methods allow reasonably accurate estimations of trust in information in realistic settings.
Description Logics, Information Fusion, Trust, Uncertainty
837-844
International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
Şensoy, Murat
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Fokoue, Achille
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Pan, Jeff Z.
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Pan, Jeff Z.
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Tang, Yuqing
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Şensoy, Murat, Fokoue, Achille, Pan, Jeff Z., Norman, Timothy J., Tang, Yuqing, Oren, Nir and Sycara, Katia
(2013)
Reasoning about Uncertain Information and Conflict Resolution through Trust Revision.
Ito, Takayuki, Jonker, Catholijn, Gini, Maria and Shehory, Onn
(eds.)
In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems: AAMAS'13, May 6-10, 2013, St. Paul, MN, USA.
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Abstract
In information driven MAS, information consumers collect information about their environment from various sources such as sensors. However, there is no guarantee that a source will provide the requested information truthfully and correctly. Even if information is provided only by trustworthy sources, it can contain conflicts that hamper its usability. In this paper, we propose to exploit such conflicts to revise trust in information. This requires a reasoning mechanism that can accommodate domain constraints, uncertainty, and trust. Our formalism - 5DL-Lite - is an extension of a tractable subset of Description Logics with Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. SDL-Lite allows reasoning about uncertain information and enables conflict detection. Then, we propose methods for conflict resolution through trust revision and analyse them through simulations. We show that the proposed methods allow reasonably accurate estimations of trust in information in realistic settings.
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Published date: 2013
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12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems 2013, AAMAS 2013, , Saint Paul, MN, United States, 2013-05-06 - 2013-05-10
Keywords:
Description Logics, Information Fusion, Trust, Uncertainty
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/469058
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Murat Şensoy
Author:
Achille Fokoue
Author:
Jeff Z. Pan
Author:
Yuqing Tang
Author:
Nir Oren
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Katia Sycara
Editor:
Takayuki Ito
Editor:
Catholijn Jonker
Editor:
Maria Gini
Editor:
Onn Shehory
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