Towards a Data-Centric Notion of Trust in the Semantic Web (A Position Statement)

Towards a
Data-Centric Notion of Trust
in the Semantic Web
(A Position Statement)
Olaf Hartig
Database and Information Systems Research Group
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Existing
Research
on Trust in the
(Semantic) Web

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Existing Research on Trust

Trust( )=?

Focus on active entities
(e.g. persons, agents, peers)



Trust( )=?

What does it mean
to trust an active entity?



Trust( )=?
● J.B. Barney and M.H. Hansen, 1994: Trust “is the mutual
confidence that one's vulnerability will not be exploited.”

What does it mean



Trust( )=?
● L. Mui, M. Mohtashemi and A. Halberstadt, 2002: Trust is
What does it mean
the “subjective expectation an agent has about another's
future behavior based on the history of their encounters.”



Trust ( )=?
What does it mean



Trust ( )=?
What does it mean
● T. Grandison and M. Sloman, 2000: Trust is “the ﬁrm belief
in the competence of an entity to act dependably, securely,
and reliably within a speciﬁed context.”



Trust ( )=?
How do we represent trust?
● Binary models (e.g. Golbeck and Hendler, 2004)
● Discrete models (e.g. Golbeck et al., 2003)
e.g. highly trusted, moderately trusted, …
● Continuous models (Brondsema and Schamp, 2006)
e.g. 0 … 1



Trust ( )=?

How do we calculate trust?
● Reputation based models
● Network based models (Web of trust)



Trust ( )=?

How do we calculate trust?
e Reputation based models
high
oderat
●

m
trust
● Network tbased models (Web of trust)
rust

?
e.g. Guha et al., 2004; Ziegler and Lausen, 2004; Golbeck et al., 2003


Trust ( )=?
What is the opposite of trust?
(Recommended: Marsh and Dibben, 2005)

Distrust ( )=?



Trust ( )=?
What is the opposite of trust?
(Recommended: Marsh and Dibben, 2005)
?

Distrust ( )=?
Representations of distrust:
● Part of the trust value (e.g. Brondsema and Schamp, 2006)
e.g. -1 … 0 … 1
● Separate value (e.g Victor et al., 2006, Guha et al., 2004)


Trust ( )=?

Focus on active entities
(e.g. persons, agents, peers)


Shift

Let's
... make data
the central subject
of research on trust
in the Semantic Web


Let's
… conceive
research on trust as an effort
that fits in the area of
information quality research


Let's
… conceive

Common definition:
Fitness for use
of information


Let's
… conceive

● Multidimensional concept


Category* Criteria / Dimensions
Intrinsic Accuracy, Objectivity, ...
Contextual Completeness, Relevance, Timeliness, ...
Representational Conciseness, Understandability, ...
Accessibility
Let's Availability, Security, ...
… conceive
research on trust as an effort and Strong, 1996
*Classification by Wang



Category* Criteria / Dimensions
Intrinsic Accuracy, Objectivity, ...
Contextual Completeness, Relevance, Timeliness, ...
Representational Conciseness, Understandability, ...
Let's
Accessibility Availability, Security, ...
… conceive
research on trust as an effort and Strong, 1996
*Classification by Wang

● Trustworthiness of data is another such IQ criterion


Trustworthiness of Data

Definition: Subjective belief or disbelief in the truth of the
information represented by this data


Focus on Semantic Web Data

Trust ( )=?


Focus on Semantic Web Data

Trust ( )=?
Trust ( )=?
http://cia..../Albania

http://.../unemp_rate

13.2 %

Trust ( )=?

Trust ( )=?

Source-level Approaches

Trust ( )=Trust ( )
e.g.: Golbeck and Hendler, 2006;
Rowe and Butters, 2009;
Zaihrayeu, da Silva, and McGuinness, 2005


Source-level Approaches

Trust ( )=Trust ( )
e.g.: Golbeck and Hendler, 2006;
Rowe and Butters, 2009;
Zaihrayeu, da Silva, and McGuinness, 2005
What if multiple sources provide this data?
What if the data was republished as an aggregation?
What about implicit statements inferred from source data?
Are data sources the only relevant assessment criterion?


Trustworthiness of Data

Definition: Subjective belief or disbelief in the truth of the
information represented by this data

● Decision to belief or disbelief affected by:
1. Provenance
2. Information quality
3. Other's opinion


Influence Category:
Provenance


Influence Category: Provenance

Trust ( )=?

● How was the creation of the data conducted?
● Who or what participated in the creation of the

data and how much do I trust this participant?
● To what extend does the input from which

the data was produced represents the truth?
● What happened to the data since its creation;

how likely is a manipulation?

Provenance
● provenir (French), meaning to come from
● How a data object in its current state came to be
● This history may start before the creation of the object


Provenance
● Provenance graphs represent the provenance


Provenance
● Basically, everything in a provenance graph
had / might have had an influence
on the data object


Provenance
● Basically, everything in a provenance graph
had / might have had an influence
on the data object

Trust( ) = fct( Trust( ), Trust( ), … )


Influence Category:
Information Quality


Influence Category: IQ
● Other IQ criteria may affect our belief in the truth of data
i.e. our trustworthiness assessment
● Example: lack of correctness, accuracy, or consistency

➔ Trustworthiness:
● Is a more abstract kind of IQ criteria
● Comprises multiple other criteria

Trust( ) = fct( Accuracy( ), Currency( ), … )


● Relevancy may depend on context:
Example: Completeness
Trust ( )
●



Trust ( )
●

Trust ( )
● Example: Currency



Trust ( )
●

Trust ( )
● Example: Currency

● Reflect relevancy by weighting the criteria

Trust( ) = fct( λAcc·Accuracy( ), λCur·Currency( ), … )


Influence Category:
Other's Opinion

Influence Category: Opinions

Trust( ) = fct( , , … )

● Similar to recommendation systems
● Two options:
● Use opinions of trusted consumers only
● Weight opinions by the consumers' trustworthiness


Take-away Summary
● Focus of trust research for the Semantic Web:
from an actor-centric view to a data-centric perspective
● Understand trustworthiness of Semantic Web data as
an information quality criterion
● Categories of factors that affect the assessment:
1. Provenance
2. Information quality

Trust ( )
3. Other's opinion


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