Description
This book gives an accessible explanation of the importance of trust in human interaction and, in general, in autonomous cognitive agents including autonomous technologies. The authors explain the concepts of trust, and describe a principled, general theory of trust grounded on cognitive, cultural, institutional, technical, and normative solutions. This provides a strong base for the author's discussion of role of trust in agent-based systems supporting human-computer interaction and distributed and virtual organizations or markets (multi-agent systems).
Key Features:
- Provides an accessible introduction to trust, and its importance and applications in agent-based systems
- Proposes a principled, general theory of trust grounding on cognitive, cultural, institutional, technical, and normative solutions.
- Offers a clear, intuitive approach, and systematic integration of relevant issues
- Explains the dynamics of trust, and the relationship between trust and security
- Offers operational definitions and models directly applicable both in technical and experimental domains
- Includes a critical examination of trust models in economics, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and AI
This book will be a valuable reference for researchers and advanced students focused on information and communication technologies (computer science, artificial intelligence, organizational sciences, and knowledge management etc.), as well as Web-site and robotics designers, and for scholars working on human, social, and cultural aspects of technology. Professionals of ecommerce systems and peer-to-peer systems will also find this text of interest.
About the Author
Cristiano Castelfranchi is full professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena, Italy, and Director of the Institute of the Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). Cristiano has a background in linguistics and psychology, and is active in the Multi-Agent Systems, Social Simulation, and Cognitive Science communities. He was program chair of AAMAS 2002, and is chair of several international workshops. He has published 11 books (3 in English), and more than 150 conference and journal articles.
Rino Falcone is Leader Researcher for the T3 (Trust Theory and Technology) group at the Institute of the Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). His scientific interests include Natural Language Processing, Plan Recognition, Multi-agent Systems and Agent Theory. Rino has published more than 100 conference and journal articles, organized several international conferences, and edited several special issues of international journal on these topics.
Reviews
"I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to delve deep into the concept of trust, in particular for use in computational applications and social simulations to strengthen awareness of complexity, complications and conundrums of trust." (JASSS, 2011)
"Castelfranchi and Falcone's (both Italian National Research Council) is the first book providing an overview of the field of modeling trust and computational models of trust." (Book News, September 2010)
Book Information
ISBN 9780470028759
Author Christiano Castelfranchi
Format Hardback
Page Count 400
Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
Weight(grams) 803g
Dimensions(mm) 252mm * 175mm * 27mm
