Using artificial neurons in evidence based trust computation

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Abstract

This paper proposes an alternative approach for evidence based trust computation where the relationship between evidence and trust is learned using an artificial neuron, making it possible to automatically adapt trust computation to different use cases. Computational trust aims to quantify trust based on ever increasing evidence on observations. In the literature a trust value is seen as a posterior subjective probability, computed using Bayesian inference on evidence, a prior and a weight of the prior. This provides a fixed mapping between evidence and trust, which may not be suitable for every case study, e.g. when positive and negative evidences are not equally important. The proposed solution is also a first step towards our future work to replace complex and case-specific trust fusion operators proposed in the literature with a generic case-independent artificial neural network solution. Our experiments on example cases of coin toss prediction and occupancy detection show that for sufficiently large data sets, i.e. given sufficient evidence based on a history of observations, the proposed learning approach yields comparable results and in some cases beats the existing approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages1879-1884
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781538643877
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 Sept 2018
Event17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018 - New York, United States
Duration: 31 Jul 20183 Aug 2018

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications and 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, Trustcom/BigDataSE 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period31/07/183/08/18

Funding

ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work is a result of the MANTIS project funded by H2020 ECSEL under grant agreement No 662189.

Keywords

  • artificial neuron
  • computational trust
  • machine learning

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