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Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper

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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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  1. Department of Computer & Information Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA

    Simon Parsons & Elizabeth Sklar

  2. Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    Simon Parsons & Elizabeth Sklar

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Ashton Building, Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3BX, United Kingdom

    Peter McBurney

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  1. Department of Informatics, King’s College London, Strand Building S6.04, The Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, UK

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  2. Masdar Institute, P.O. Box 54224, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Iyad Rahwan

  3. Department of Computer Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, 10016, New York, NY, USA

    Simon Parsons

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Parsons, S., McBurney, P., Sklar, E. (2011). Reasoning about Trust Using Argumentation: A Position Paper. In: McBurney, P., Rahwan, I., Parsons, S. (eds) Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems. ArgMAS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21940-5_10

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