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International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems

FQAS 2011: Flexible Query Answering Systems pp 186–197Cite as

Propagation of Question Waves by Means of Trust in a Social Network

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This paper proposes a model of behavior for agents who answer questions; the model works similarly to the way in which people interact in social networks and the agents behave differently depending on who asks a question; this behavior modulates the effort utilized in finding better answers for a given question. Our model also avoids consulting all acquaintances fact that can overload or overburden the contacts. However, since reducing the number of recipients might result in a poorer answer, we propose a behavior of consulting a small set of contacts and adding more recipients only if no relevant answer is found. The most promising result is that the first answer-in is probably the most relevant. The ordering the answers simply as they arrive gives the best ranking of answers. The new ranking is well-suited for real time question answering and avoids costly methods associated with re-ranking results.

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  1. Agents Research Lab, Escola Politècnica Superior, Universitat de Girona, PIV 17071, Girona, Spain

    Albert Trias Mansilla & Josep Lluís de la Rosa Esteva

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  1. Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  3. Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), 06531, Ankara, Türkiye

    Adnan Yazici

  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Slawomir Zadrozny

  5. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Building 42.1, P.O Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  6. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vey 8, H321, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Trias Mansilla, A., de la Rosa Esteva, J.L. (2011). Propagation of Question Waves by Means of Trust in a Social Network. In: Christiansen, H., De Tré, G., Yazici, A., Zadrozny, S., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24764-4_17

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