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As the amount of information on the web grows, users may find increasing challenges in trusting and sometimes distrusting sources. One possible aid is to maintain a network of trust between sources. In this paper, we propose to model such a network as an intuitionistic fuzzy relation. This allows to elegantly handle together the problem of ignorance, i.e. not knowing whether to trust or not, and vagueness, i.e. trust as a matter of degree. We pay special attention to deriving trust information through a trusted third party, which becomes especially challenging when distrust is involved.
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De Cock, M., da Silva, P.P. (2006). A Many Valued Representation and Propagation of Trust and Distrust. In: Bloch, I., Petrosino, A., Tettamanzi, A.G.B. (eds) Fuzzy Logic and Applications. WILF 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11676935_14
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