Argument Schemes for Reasoning about Trust
Simon Parsons, Katie M. Atkinson, Karen Zita Haigh, Karl Levitt, Peter McBurney, Jeff Rowe, Munindar P. Singh, Sklar Elizabeth · Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications · 2012
Trust is a natural mechanism by which an autonomous party can deal with the inherent uncertainty regarding the behaviors of other parties and the uncertainty in the information it shares with those parties. Trust is thus crucial in any decentralized system. We build on recent efforts to use argumentation to reason about trust. Specifically, we provide a set of schemes, abstract patterns of reasoning that apply in multiple situations, geared toward trust. We describe, in the form of a set of critical questions, the situations in which the schemes may default.