Trust between Cooperating Technical Systems : With an Application on Cognitive Vehicles EPUB

?Researchers from social sciences and economics consider trust a requirement for successful cooperation between people.

It helps to judge the risk in situations, in which a person has the choice to rely on another one.

In the future, technical systems will face similar situations.

Assume, for example, self-organised robots, which reload some goods at a large logistics centre together.

For this, they will need a mechanism like trust. This book gives the reader tools to understand trust and to introduce a trust mechnism into own applications.

The tools include generic requirements for own trust mechanisms and the Enfident Model - a conceptual, implementation-independent model of trust.

These theoretical tools are complemented with state-of-the-art algorithms from statistical relational learning.

Finally, as an example, all this is applied to cooperating cognitive vehicles.

As trust is a social phenomenon, this evaluation features a virtual society of vehicles, which cooperate in a vehicular network.

It shows that the postulated requirements and the Enfident Model lead to intuitive and consistent results.