TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a reference ontology of trust
AU - Amaral, Glenda
AU - Sales, Tiago Prince
AU - Guizzardi, Giancarlo
AU - Porello, Daniele
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2019/10/11
Y1 - 2019/10/11
N2 - Trust is a key component of relationships in social life. It is commonly argued that trust is the “glue” that holds families, societies, organizations and companies together. In the literature trust is frequently considered as a strategic asset for organizations. Having a clear understanding of the notion of trust and its components is paramount to both trust assessment and trust management. Although much progress has been made to clarify the ontological nature of trust, the term remains overloaded and there is not yet a shared or prevailing, and conceptually clear notion of trust. In this paper we address this issue by means of an in-depth ontological analysis of the notion of trust, grounded in the Unified Foundational Ontology. As a result, we propose a concrete artifact, namely, the Reference Ontology for Trust, in which we characterize the general concept of trust and distinguish between two types of trust, namely, social trust and institution-based trust. We also represent the emergence of risk from trust relations. In addition, we make a comparative analysis of our Reference Ontology to other trust ontologies. To validate and demonstrate the contribution of our approach, we apply it to model two application examples.
AB - Trust is a key component of relationships in social life. It is commonly argued that trust is the “glue” that holds families, societies, organizations and companies together. In the literature trust is frequently considered as a strategic asset for organizations. Having a clear understanding of the notion of trust and its components is paramount to both trust assessment and trust management. Although much progress has been made to clarify the ontological nature of trust, the term remains overloaded and there is not yet a shared or prevailing, and conceptually clear notion of trust. In this paper we address this issue by means of an in-depth ontological analysis of the notion of trust, grounded in the Unified Foundational Ontology. As a result, we propose a concrete artifact, namely, the Reference Ontology for Trust, in which we characterize the general concept of trust and distinguish between two types of trust, namely, social trust and institution-based trust. We also represent the emergence of risk from trust relations. In addition, we make a comparative analysis of our Reference Ontology to other trust ontologies. To validate and demonstrate the contribution of our approach, we apply it to model two application examples.
KW - n/a OA procedure
KW - Trust
KW - Unified foundational ontology
KW - Ontological analysis
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85077866864
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85077866864
SN - 9783030332457
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 3
EP - 21
BT - On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
A2 - Panetto, Hervé
A2 - Debruyne, Christophe
A2 - Lewis, Dave
A2 - Hepp, Martin
A2 - Ardagna, Claudio Agostino
A2 - Meersman, Robert
PB - Springer Spektrum
T2 - Confederated International Conferences on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS 2019, Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics, ODBASE 2019, and Cloud and Trusted Computing, C and TC, held as part of OTM 2019
Y2 - 21 October 2019 through 25 October 2019
ER -