Valuing Others’ Opinions: Preference, Belief and Reliability Dynamics

Sujata Ghosh, Katsuhiko Sano

2017

Abstract

Deliberation often leads to changes in preferences and beliefs of an agent, influenced by the opinions of others, depending on how reliable these agents are according to the agent under consideration. Sometimes, it also leads to changes in the opposite direction, that is, reliability over agents gets updated depending on their preferences and/or beliefs. There are various formal studies of preference and belief change based on reliability and/or trust, but not the other way around $-$ this work contributes to the formal study of the latter aspect, that is, on reliability change based on agent preferences. In process, some policies of preference change based on agent reliabilities are also discussed. A two-dimensional hybrid language is proposed to describe such processes, and axiomatisations and decidability are discussed.

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Ghosh S. and Sano K. (2017). Valuing Others’ Opinions: Preference, Belief and Reliability Dynamics . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-220-2, pages 615-623. DOI: 10.5220/0006204806150623


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@conference{icaart17,
author={Sujata Ghosh and Katsuhiko Sano},
title={Valuing Others’ Opinions: Preference, Belief and Reliability Dynamics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2017},
pages={615-623},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006204806150623},
isbn={978-989-758-220-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Valuing Others’ Opinions: Preference, Belief and Reliability Dynamics
SN - 978-989-758-220-2
AU - Ghosh S.
AU - Sano K.
PY - 2017
SP - 615
EP - 623
DO - 10.5220/0006204806150623