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 atti di convegno

1999

Founding Agents Adjustable Autonomy on Delegation Theory

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Congresso dell'Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA-99), pp. 1–10, Bologna, 14-17 settembre

Levels of Delegation and Levels of Help for Agents with Adjustable Autonomy

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: 1999 AAAI Spring Symposium on Agents With Adjustable Autonomy, pp. 25–32, Stanford University, March 22-24

The Dynamics of Trust: from Beliefs to Action

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: Workshop on "Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societies" at Autonomous Agents '99, pp. 41–54, Seattle, USA, May 1,

1998

Bayesian Cognitive Diagnosis in Believable Multiagent Systems

de Rosis F., Castelfranchi C., Falcone R., Covino E.

Source: International Belief Revision Workshop, pp. 24–38, Trento, Italy, May 30 - June 1

Deceiving in GOLEM: how to strategically pilfer help

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R., de Rosis F.

Source: Workshop on "Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societes" at Autonomous Agents '98, pp. 100–112, Minneapolis/St Paul, USA, May 9

Formalizing Trust

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Sesto Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA-98, pp. 241–245, Padova, 23-25 settembre

Principles of trust for MAS: Cognitive anatomy, social importance, and quantification

Castelfranchi, C, Falcone, R

Source: International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS'98), pp. 72–79, Parigi, July 3-7

Social attitudes and personalities in agents

Castelfranchi, C., de Rosis, F., Falcone, R.

Source: Sesto Convegno dell'Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA-98, pp. 206–210, Padova, 23-25 settembre

Social Trust: cognitive anatomy, social importance, quantification and dynamics

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R.

Source: Workshop on "Deception, Fraud and Trust in Agent Societes", at Autonomous Agents '98, pp. 35–49, Minneapolis/St Paul, USA, May 9

Articolo

1998

Personality traits and social attitudes in Multi-Agent Cooperation

Castelfranchi C., de Rosis F., Falcone R., Pizzutilo S.

Source: Applied artificial intelligence 12 (1998): 649–676., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi C., de Rosis F., Falcone R., Pizzutilo S./titolo:Personality traits and social attitudes in Multi-Agent Cooperation/doi:/rivista:Applied artificial intelligence/anno:1998/pagina_da:649/pagina_a:676/intervallo_pagi

Sulla definizione di "intelligenza"

Falcone R. et al.

Source: Sistemi intelligenti (Testo stamp.) 3 (1998): 241–245., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R. et al./titolo:Sulla definizione di "intelligenza"/doi:/rivista:Sistemi intelligenti (Testo stamp.)/anno:1998/pagina_da:241/pagina_a:245/intervallo_pagine:241–245/volume:3

Towards a theory of delegation for agent-based systems

Castelfranchi, C, Falcone, R

Source: Robotics and autonomous systems (Print) 24 (1998): 141–157. doi:10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00028-1, info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C; Falcone, R/titolo:Towards a theory of delegation for agent-based systems/doi:10.1016/S0921-8890(98)00028-1/rivista:Robotics and autonomous systems (Print)/anno:1998/pagina_da:141/pagina_a:157/intervallo_pagine:

1997

Delegation Conflicts

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 1237 (1997): 234–254., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R./titolo:Delegation Conflicts/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:1997/pagina_da:234/pagina_a:254/intervallo_pagine:234–254/volume:1237

From Task Delegation to Role Delegation

Castelfranchi C., Falcone R.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 1321 (1997): 278–289., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Castelfranchi C., Falcone R./titolo:From Task Delegation to Role Delegation/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:1997/pagina_da:278/pagina_a:289/intervallo_pagine:278–289/volume:1321

ICMAS '96: Norms, obligations, and conventions

Conte, R, Falcone, R

Source: The AI magazine 18 (1997): 145–147., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Conte, R; Falcone, R/titolo:ICMAS '96: Norms, obligations, and conventions/doi:/rivista:The AI magazine/anno:1997/pagina_da:145/pagina_a:147/intervallo_pagine:145–147/volume:18

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