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Trust: Theory and Technology.

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Latest updates

Trust events: Upcoming Trust 2010 workshop at AAMAS 2010 in the events page.
Added December 22, 2009.

Trust events: New Trust and Reputation related events have been uploaded in the events page.
Added May 3, 2008.

Socio-Cognitive Model of Trust:: We uploaded a preliminary draft version of chapter 3 included in the forthcoming book about Trust by Cristiano Castelfranchi and Rino Falcone.
Added January 16, 2007.

Newsletter 12: new issue of our newsletter.
Added December 6, 2007.

Trust in Agent Societies 2008: The eleventh international workshop on Trust in Agent Societies will be held at AAMAS 2008 on May 12 and 13, 2008 (Estoril, Portugal).
Added December 5, 2007.

Trust 2007 articles: we added downloadable papers of the workshop Trust held in AAMAS 2007.
Added June 7, 2007.

T³ Group is a research team hosted in the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at the National Reasearch Council (CNR), in Rome, Italy. Studies about trust, its fundamental concepts and its impact on technological environments and processes have been developed in our Institute since 1997. Following these activities, and for structuring them in a more coordinated way, T³ Group has been constituted in 2003.

This website presents information about who is working in the group and about our publications, activities and events, such as workshops, conferences and calls for papers. You can also join our newsletter for receiving news about this website and trust related events.

Our mission

T³ Group inquires the trust concept in its several possible relational fields: among humans, among artificial agents, among humans and artificial agents, among humans through artificial agents, among single (artificial or human) agents and groups, among groups, and so on.

Our studies start from a socio-cognitive point of view: we believe that is extremely important to understand in details how is the mind of a trusting agent in order to consider trust with an appropriate degree of deepening.

Why trust?

Trust, in our view, is a key concept in all the studies reguarding Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems and it will become a very important factor for the new emerging info-societies. Trust plays a great role in modelling interactional social concepts (such as commitment, delegation, conflicts, etc.) and macro-social concepts (such as dependence networks, market, organization, group, collaboration, etc.).

Trust theory and trust across disciplines

The main objectives of our research are both to produce a general theory of trust and to develop and implement computational models of it. Highlights of our theory are provided as well as downloadable articles, proceedings and papers written by T³ members to go deep into this complex and rich matter.

We collected resources by several other authors too, in order to build a comprehensive map of every academic domain where trust has been studied, such as economics, sociology, computer science, psychology and so forth.