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

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

Quinto Convegno AI*IA: Workshop "Agenti: teorie, linguaggi, architetture, applicazioni"

Falcone R.

Source: AIIA notizie 1 (1997): 40–42., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone R./titolo:Quinto Convegno AI*IA: Workshop "Agenti: teorie, linguaggi, architetture, applicazioni"/doi:/rivista:AIIA notizie/anno:1997/pagina_da:40/pagina_a:42/intervallo_pagine:40–42/volume:1

1996

Plan Recognition: from Single-Agent to Multi-Agent plans

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: Lecture notes in computer science 1069 (1996): 166–178., info:cnr-pdr/source/autori:Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C./titolo:Plan Recognition: from Single-Agent to Multi-Agent plans/doi:/rivista:Lecture notes in computer science/anno:1996/pagina_da:166/pagina_a:178/intervallo_pagine:166–178/volume:1069

Contributo in atti di convegno

1997

"On behalf of ..": levels of help, levels of delegation and their conflicts

Falcone, R., Castelfranchi, C.

Source: 4th ModelAge Workshop: on "Formal Model of Agents", pp. 283–297, Certosa di Pontignano (Siena), 15-17 gennaio

A Testbed for investigating personality-based multiagent cooperation

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

Source: Symposium on Logical Approaches to Agent Modeling and Design, pp. 18–22, Aix-en-Provence (FR), August, 18-22

Personality-driven social behaviors in believable agents

Rizzo, Paola, Veloso, Manuela, Miceli, Maria, Cesta, Amedeo

Source: AAAI Fall Symposium on "Socially Intelligent Agents", 1997

Social Attitudes and Personalities in Agents, Socially Intelligent Agents

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

Source: AAAI Fall Symposium Series 1997, pp. 16–21, MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 8-10

1996

"Introduction" International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '96)

Conte R., Falcone R.

Source: Workshop on "Norms, Obligations, and Conventions" at ICMAS-96, pp. 1–6, Kyoto, Japan, December, 10

"On behalf of .." Theory of delegation and levels of help

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: V Convegno Nazionale dell'Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale (AI*IA -95), pp. 293–296, Napoli, 28 settembre

Levels of help, levels of delegation and agent modeling

Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R.

Source: Agent Modeling: Workshop of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), Portland, Oregon, USA, August, 4

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Associate Researcher

Researcher

1997

Delegation Conflicts

From Task Delegation to Role Delegation

ICMAS '96: Norms, obligations, and conventions

Quinto Convegno AI*IA: Workshop "Agenti: teorie, linguaggi, architetture, applicazioni"

1996

Plan Recognition: from Single-Agent to Multi-Agent plans

1997

"On behalf of ..": levels of help, levels of delegation and their conflicts

A Testbed for investigating personality-based multiagent cooperation

Personality-driven social behaviors in believable agents

Social Attitudes and Personalities in Agents, Socially Intelligent Agents

1996

"Introduction" International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS '96)

"On behalf of .." Theory of delegation and levels of help

Levels of help, levels of delegation and agent modeling

1995

"To say and to do" virtual actions in the structure and recognition of discourse plans with regard to practical plans

Chart Based Plan Recognition for Explanation

From Single-Agent to Multi-Agent: Challenges for Plan Recognition Systems