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A Translation Mechanism For Recommendations, Pierpaolo Dondio, Luca Longo, Stephen Barrett
A Translation Mechanism For Recommendations, Pierpaolo Dondio, Luca Longo, Stephen Barrett
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An important class of distributed Trust-based solutions is based on the information sharing. A basic requirement of such systems is the ability of participating agents to effectively communicate, receiving and sending messages that can be interpreted correctly. Unfortunately, in open systems it is not possible to postulate a common agreement about the representation of a rating, its semantic meaning and cognitive and computational mechanisms behind a trust-rating formation. Social scientists agree to consider unqualified trust values not transferable, but a more pragmatic approach would conclude that qualified trust judgments are worth being transferred as far as decisions taken considering others’ …