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

Articolo

2002

Issues of trust and control on agent autonomy

Falcone, R, Castelfranchi, C

Source: Connection science (Print) 14 (2002): 249–263. doi:10.1080/0954009021000068763, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R; Castelfranchi, C/titolo:Issues of trust and control on agent autonomy/doi:10.1080/0954009021000068763/rivista:Connection science (Print)/anno:2002/pagina_da:249/pagina_a:263/intervallo_pagine:249–263/volume:14

2001

Bringing together Humans and Artificial Agents in Cyber-Societies: A new field of Trust Research

Falcone R., Singh M., Tan Y.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 2246 (2001): 1–7., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R., Singh M., and Tan Y./titolo:Bringing together Humans and Artificial Agents in Cyber-Societies: A new field of Trust Research/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2001/pagina_da:1/pagina_a:7/intervallo_

The Human in the Loop of a Delegated Agent: The Theory of Adjustable Social Autonomy

Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.

Source: IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Part A, Systems and humans (Online) 31 (2001): 406–418., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R., Castelfranchi C./titolo:The Human in the Loop of a Delegated Agent: The Theory of Adjustable Social Autonomy/doi:/rivista:IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics. Part A, Systems and humans (Online)/anno:2

The socio-cognitive dynamics of trust: does trust create trust?

Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 2246 (2001): 55–72., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R., Castelfranchi C./titolo:The socio-cognitive dynamics of trust: does trust create trust?/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2001/pagina_da:55/pagina_a:72/intervallo_pagine:55–72/volume:2246

Tuning the collaboration level with autonomous agents: A principled theory

Falcone R., Castelfranchi C.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 2175 (2001): 212–224., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R., Castelfranchi C./titolo:Tuning the collaboration level with autonomous agents: A principled theory/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:2001/pagina_da:212/pagina_a:224/intervallo_pagine:212–224/volume:

Contributo in atti di convegno

2002

Quantifying Belief Credibility for Trust-based Decision

Falcone R., Pezzulo, G., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Workshop on Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies at AAMAS 2002, pp. 41–48, Bologna, July 15-19

Tuning the Agent Autonomy: the relationships between Trust and Control

Falcone R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Workshop on "Autonomy, Delegation, and Control: From Inter-agent to Groups" at AAAI CONFERENCE, Edmonton (Canada), July 28

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

Libro o curatela

2001

Trust in Cyber-societies: Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives

Falcone R., Singh M., Tan Y.

Source: Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2001

Contributo in volume

Additional info

Coordinatore

Associate Researcher

Researcher

2002

Issues of trust and control on agent autonomy

2001

Bringing together Humans and Artificial Agents in Cyber-Societies: A new field of Trust Research

The Human in the Loop of a Delegated Agent: The Theory of Adjustable Social Autonomy

The socio-cognitive dynamics of trust: does trust create trust?

Tuning the collaboration level with autonomous agents: A principled theory

2002

Quantifying Belief Credibility for Trust-based Decision

Tuning the Agent Autonomy: the relationships between Trust and Control

2001

How trust enhances and spread trust

2001

Trust in Cyber-societies: Integrating the Human and Artificial Perspectives

2001

Agenti e Sistemi Multi-Agente

Autonomy: Theory, Dimensions and Regulation

Bayesian cognitive diagnosis in believable multiagent systems

Conflicts within and for collaboration

Deceiving in GOLEM: How to strategically pilfer help

Social trust: A cognitive approach