Using New Reasoning Technology in Chemical Information Systems

Judson, Philip N.; Fox, John; Krause, Paul

doi:10.1021/ci9500905

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“…Four lines of work on trust and argumentation that are complementary to ours include those of Harwood [38,39], Matt at al., Hunter [40], [58], and Stranders [84]. In addition, argumentation has been used in the past to reason about risk [47,60], a subject closely related to trust though the cited work looked at risk of carcinogenicity given chemical structure rather than risk due to untrustworthiness.…”

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Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief

Tang

Cai

McBurney

et al. 2011

Journal of Logic and Computation

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Trust is a mechanism for managing the uncertainty about autonomous entities and the information they store, and so can play an important role in any decentralized system. As a result, trust has been widely studied in multiagent systems and related fields such as the semantic web. Here we introduce a formal system of argumentation that can be used to reason using information about trust. This system is described as a set of graphs, which makes it possible to combine our approach with conventional representations of trust between individuals where the relationships between individuals are given in the form of a graph. The resulting system can easily relate the grounds of an argument to the agent that supplied the information, and can be used as the basis to compute Dungian notions of acceptability that take trust into account. We explore some of the properties of these argumentation graphs, examine the computation of trust and belief in the graphs, and illustrate the capabilities of the system on an example from the trust literature.

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Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief

Tang

Cai

McBurney

et al. 2011

Journal of Logic and Computation

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“…For a detailed comparison of this work and ours, see [37]. In addition, argumentation has been used in the past to reason about risk [18,25], a subject closely related to trust; though the cited work looks at risk of carcinogenicity given chemical structure rather than risk due to untrustworthiness.…”

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Some Thoughts on Using Argumentation to Handle Trust

Parsons

Tang

Cai

et al. 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper describes some of our recent work on using argumentation to handle information about trust. We first discuss the importance of trust in computer science in general and in multi-agent systems in particular. We then describe the setting of our work, situating it within the broad area of work on trust. Next we provide an overview of two lines of work we are currently pursuingusing argumentation to reason about which individuals to trust, and using argumentation to relate sources of information to conclusions drawn from information provided by those sources. Finally, we outline our current initiatives and briefly highlight other work that is closely related to ours.

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“…Here the work by Fox and colleagues [14,17] showed that constructing arguments for and against a decision option, and then simply combining these arguments 8 could provide a decision mechanism that rivalled the accuracy of probabilistic models. This basic method was extended in [18,51] to create a symbolic mechanism that, like classical decision theory, distinguished between belief in propositions and the values of decision outcomes, while [30] showed the usefulness of arguments in communicating evidence for decision options to human users. More recent work on argumentation and decision making is described in [31,71].…”

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Evaluation of a trust-modulated argumentation-based interactive decision-making tool

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Parsons

et al. 2015

Auton Agent Multi-Agent Syst

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The interactive ArgTrust application is a decision-making tool that is based on an underlying formal system of argumentation in which the evidence that influences a recommendation, or conclusion, is modulated according to values of trust that the user places in that evidence. This paper presents the design and analysis of a user study which was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of ArgTrust in a collaborative human-agent decision-making task. The results show that users' interactions with ArgTrust helped them consider their decisions more carefully than without using the software tool.

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Using New Reasoning Technology in Chemical Information Systems

Cited by 17 publications

References 14 publications

Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief

Using argumentation to reason about trust and belief

Some Thoughts on Using Argumentation to Handle Trust

Evaluation of a trust-modulated argumentation-based interactive decision-making tool

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