Trust Theory and Technology Group

T3 Group goal is to study the trust concept in order to understand its complexities and to try to develop a complete theory of trust, with specific attention to its relations with delegation and social cooperation.

Web page:

http://t3.istc.cnr.it

Address:

Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - CNR

Via San Martino della Battaglia 44 - 00185 - Roma

Additional info

Profile

Our studies start from a socio-cognitive point of view because we believe that is extremely important to understand in details how is the mind of a trusting agent: we need a cognitive architecture, built up by beliefs and goals, to consider trust with an appropriate degree of deepening. We try also to develop computational models of our research in order to test our theories by simulation with intelligent agents: an attempt in this perspective uses a Fuzzy Logic for analyzing how a beliefs architecture about trust could be understood and used by artificial agents.

The results of our research can be useful to understand complex social phenomena besides trust: with the growing interest in artificial environments and in human relationships within these environments, it is more and more important to understand how cooperation, reputation, economic exchanges and communication start, develop and perhaps end in domains like the Internet, HCI, CSCW, e-commerce, telemedicine and so on. Trust is a key factor in all these frameworks.

Members

Former Members:

Emiliano Lorini, IRIT-CNRS (France)
Francesca Marzo, LUISS (Italy)
Michele Piunti, Reply Srl (Italy)
Filippo Ulivieri
Matteo Venanzi, University of Southampton (UK)

Publications

Contributo in volume

2001

Social trust: A cognitive approach

Falcone, R, Castelfranchi, C

Source: Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies, edited by Castelfranchi C. and Yao-Hua Tan, pp. 55–90. Hingham, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Pub, 2001

Contributo in atti di convegno

2001

How trust enhances and spread trust

Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.

Source: Workshop on "Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies" at Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, Canada, May 29

2000

Does control reduce or increase trust? A complex relationship

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R.

Source: Workshop on "Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies" at Autonomous Agents 2000, pp. 49–60, Barcelona, Spain, June 4

Trust is much more than subjective probability: Mental components and sources of trust

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R.

Source: 33nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - Mini-Track on Software Agents, pp. 1–10, Maui, Hawaii, January 5-8

Articolo

2000

Delegation-based conflicts between client and contractor

Falcone, R, Castelfranchi, C

Source: Intelligent automation & soft computing (Print) 6 (2000): 193–203., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R; Castelfranchi, C/titolo:Delegation-based conflicts between client and contractor/doi:/rivista:Intelligent automation & soft computing (Print)/anno:2000/pagina_da:193/pagina_a:203/intervallo_pagine:193–203/volume:6

Grounding Autonomy Adjustement on Delegation and Trust Theory

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence (Online) 12 (2000): 149–152., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.,/titolo:Grounding Autonomy Adjustement on Delegation and Trust Theory/doi:/rivista:Journal of experimental and theoretical artificial intelligence (Online)/anno:2000/pagina_da:149/pagina_a:152/inte

Guest Editorial

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R., Firozabadi, B., Tan, Y.H.

Source: Applied artificial intelligence 14 (2000)., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi C., Falcone R., Firozabadi, B., Tan, Y.H./titolo:Guest Editorial/doi:/rivista:Applied artificial intelligence/anno:2000/pagina_da:/pagina_a:/intervallo_pagine:/volume:14

Guest Editorial

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R., Firozabadi, B., Tan, Y.H.

Il paradigma ad agenti: l'IA torna alle sue sfide originarie (e al successo)

Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.

Source: Lettera matematica PRISTEM (Testo stamp.) 36 (2000): 21–29., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.,/titolo:Il paradigma ad agenti: l'IA torna alle sue sfide originarie (e al successo)/doi:/rivista:Lettera matematica PRISTEM (Testo stamp.)/anno:2000/pagina_da:21/pagina_a:29/intervallo_pagine:21–29/

Levels of delegation and levels of adoption as the basis for adjustable autonomy

Falcone, R, Castelfranchi, C

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 1792 (2000): 273–284., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R; Castelfranchi, C/titolo:Levels of delegation and levels of adoption as the basis for adjustable autonomy/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2000/pagina_da:273/pagina_a:284/intervallo_pagine:273–284/v

Trust and control: A dialectic link

Castelfranchi, C, Falcone, R

Source: Applied artificial intelligence 14 (2000): 799–823. doi:10.1080/08839510050127560, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C; Falcone, R/titolo:Trust and control: A dialectic link/doi:10.1080/08839510050127560/rivista:Applied artificial intelligence/anno:2000/pagina_da:799/pagina_a:823/intervallo_pagine:799–823/volume:14

1999

Agents and Norms: How to fill the gap?

Conte R., Falcone R., G. Sartor

Source: Artificial intelligence and law (Dordr., Print) 7 (1999): 1–15., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Conte R., Falcone R., G. Sartor,/titolo:Agents and Norms: How to fill the gap?/doi:/rivista:Artificial intelligence and law (Dordr., Print)/anno:1999/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:15/intervallo_pagine:1–15/volume:7

Basic Mental Attitudes of a Collaborating Agent: Cognitive Primitives for MAS

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 1647 (1999): 188–209., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R./titolo:Basic Mental Attitudes of a Collaborating Agent: Cognitive Primitives for MAS/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:1999/pagina_da:188/pagina_a:209/intervallo_pagine:188–209/vo

The challenge of trust, the autonomous agents'98 workshop on deception, fraud and trust in agent societies

Falcone, R, Firozabadi, BS

Source: Knowledge engineering review (Print) 14 (1999): 81–89. doi:10.1017/S0269888999134039, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R; Firozabadi, BS/titolo:The challenge of trust, the autonomous agents'98 workshop on deception, fraud and trust in agent societies/doi:10.1017/S0269888999134039/rivista:Knowledge engineering review (Print)/anno:1999/pa

Verso una nuova teoria dell'affidabilità tra uomini e macchine

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: Ricerca e Futuro 12 (1999): 56–58., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R./titolo:Verso una nuova teoria dell'affidabilità tra uomini e macchine/doi:/rivista:Ricerca e Futuro/anno:1999/pagina_da:56/pagina_a:58/intervallo_pagine:56–58/volume:12

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