Trust on beliefs: source, time and expertise
Victor S. Melo, Alison Roberto Panisson, Rafael H. Bordini · 2016
Trust is an important mechanism that describes how credible is the relation between agents in a multi-agent system. In this work, we extend the idea of trust to beliefs of agents, combining not only the provenance of information but also the outdated of such information. The resulting approach allows the agent generate different trust values for beliefs, depending on which meta-information is more important for that particular application, the trust in the source or how recent the information is. For this end, we describe some profiles of agents with different characteristics, combining the trust on the source and the outdated of information. Furthermore, we discuss how patterns of reasoning like argumentation schemes can play an important role in our approach, considering the expertise of the source of information.