Strategies for Incorporating Knowledge Defects and Path Length in Trust Aggregation

Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2010Open access

Nele Verbiest, Chris Cornelis, Patricia Victor, Enrique Herrera‐Viedma

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This paper proposes a set of trust aggregation operators that take into account knowledge defects and path length, and investigates their properties, and discusses how they may be implemented in practice, taking into account characteristics of the network such as the availability of a central authority, or the need to preserve users' privacy by not publically disclosing their trust information.

Abstract

Chris Cornelis would like to thank the Research Foundation Flanders for funding his research. Patricia Victor would like to thank the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen) for funding her research. Enrique Herrera-Viedma would like to thank the financing of andalucian excellence project TIC05299, Feder Funds in FUZZYLING project (TIN2007-61079) and PETRI project (PET 2007-0460).

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