Trust and distrust in contradictory information transmission
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Primiero, G., Raimondi, F., Bottone, M. and Tagliabue, J. 2017. Trust and distrust in contradictory information transmission. Applied Network Science. 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-017-0029-0
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Title | Trust and distrust in contradictory information transmission |
Authors | Primiero, G., Raimondi, F., Bottone, M. and Tagliabue, J. |
Abstract | We analyse the problem of contradictory information distribution in networks of agents with positive and negative trust. The networks of interest are built by ranked agents with different epistemic attitudes. In this context, positive trust is a property of the communication between agents required when message passing is executed bottom-up in the hierarchy, or as a result of a sceptic agent checking information. These two situations are associated with a confirmation procedure that has an epistemic cost. Negative trust results from refusing verification, either of contradictory information or because of a lazy attitude. We offer first a natural deduction system called SecureNDsim to model these interactions and consider some meta-theoretical properties of its derivations. We then implement it in a NetLogo simulation to test experimentally its formal properties. Our analysis concerns in particular: conditions for consensus-reaching transmissions; epistemic costs induced by confirmation and rejection operations; the influence of ranking of the initially labelled nodes on consensus and costs; complexity results. |
Research Group | Foundations of Computing group |
Publisher | Springer |
Journal | Applied Network Science |
ISSN | 2364-8228 |
Publication dates | |
05 Jun 2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 07 Jun 2017 |
Accepted | 29 Apr 2017 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Copyright Statement | The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
Additional information | Article number = 12 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41109-017-0029-0 |
Web of Science identifier | MEDLINE:30443567 |
Language | English |
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