MECHANIZED CULTURAL REASONING AS A TOOL TO ASSESS TRUST IN VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

Jacques Calmet (1) , Pierre Maret (2) , Marvin Schneider (3)

1 IAKS - Institut für Algorithmen und Kognitive Systeme
2 LHC - Laboratoire Hubert Curien
3 FGV - Fundacao Getulio Vargas [Rio de Janeiro]

The globalized knowledge society generates virtual enterprises that are usually set up and managed on the web, and the new trend is to make the relevant technologies avail- able on intelligent portable devices. The existence of trust is a mandatory condition to make such enterprises successful. Trust has many facets ranging from very theoretical ones to fully heuristic features. One point is that trust can arise when one understands better the behavior of partners. In this paper we outline a new technology leading to the possibility to include inter-cultural issues among the factors having a strong impact on trust. This technology is called Abstraction-Based Information Technology. Its goal is to enable to design tools in articial intelligence to perform so-called cultural reasoning that ensures better trust among inter-cultural communities.We outline how Abstraction- Based Information Technology becomes feasible when working with virtual knowledge communities. An argument in favor of our approach is that it relies on a bottom-up ap- proach, particularly suitable for the web technology and for intelligent wearable devices. The solution of intercultural troubles then amounts to solve knowledge con icts among virtual knowledge communities.

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]

Jacques Calmet, Pierre Maret, Marvin Schneider. MECHANIZED CULTURAL REASONING AS A TOOL TO ASSESS TRUST IN VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES. International Journal of Computer Science and Applications, 2010, VII (II), pp.ISSN 0972-9038. ⟨hal-00531397⟩