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Erschienen in: Knowledge and Information Systems 3/2017

23.06.2016 | Regular Paper

Sharing beliefs among agents with different degrees of credibility

verfasst von: Luciano H. Tamargo, Sebastian Gottifredi, Alejandro J. García, Guillermo R. Simari

Erschienen in: Knowledge and Information Systems | Ausgabe 3/2017

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Abstract

This paper introduces an approach for sharing beliefs in collaborative multi-agent application domains where some agents can be more credible than others. In this context, we propose a formalization where every agent has its own partial order among its peers representing the credibility the agent assigns to its informants; each agent will also have a belief base where each sentence is attached with an agent identifier which represents the credibility of that sentence. We define four different forwarding criteria for computing the credibility information for a belief to be forwarded, and for determining how the receiver should handle the incoming information; the proposal considers both the sender’s and the receiver’s points of view with respect to the credibility of the source of the information.

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Metadaten
Titel
Sharing beliefs among agents with different degrees of credibility
verfasst von
Luciano H. Tamargo
Sebastian Gottifredi
Alejandro J. García
Guillermo R. Simari
Publikationsdatum
23.06.2016
Verlag
Springer London
Erschienen in
Knowledge and Information Systems / Ausgabe 3/2017
Print ISSN: 0219-1377
Elektronische ISSN: 0219-3116
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-016-0964-6

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