Trust-Based Fusion of Untrustworthy Information in Crowdsourcing Applications
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Author(s)
Venanzi, Matteo
Rogers, Alex
Jennings, NR
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
In this paper, we address the problem of fusing untrustworthy reports provided from a crowd of observers, while simultaneously learning the trustworthiness of individuals. To achieve this, we construct a likelihood model of the userss trustworthiness by scaling the uncertainty of its multiple estimates with trustworthiness parameters. We incorporate our trust model into a fusion method that merges estimates based on the trust parameters and we provide an inference algorithm that jointly computes the fused output and the individual trustworthiness of the users based on the maximum likelihood framework. We apply our algorithm to cell tower localisation using real-world data from the OpenSignal project and we show that it outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy, by up to 21%, and consistency, by up to 50% of its predictions. Copyright © 2013, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (www.ifaamas.org). All rights reserved.
Date Issued
2013
Citation
2013, pp.829-836
Publisher
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Start Page
829
End Page
836
Identifier
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/346520/
Source
12th Int. Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2013
Publication Status
Unpublished