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Agent mediated e-commerce involves buying and selling on Internet through software agents. The success of an agent mediated e-commerce system lies in the underlying reputation management system which is used to improve the quality of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2013-04-01 Vibha Gaur , Neeraj Kumar Sharma , Punam Bedi

Trust models are widely used in various computer science disciplines. The main purpose of a trust model is to continuously measure trustworthiness of a set of entities based on their behaviors. In this article, the novel notion of "rational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Mehrdad Nojoumian

Decision-making methods very often use the technique of comparing alternatives in pairs. In this approach, experts are asked to compare different options, and then a quantitative ranking is created from the results obtained. It is commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-21 M. Strada , K. Kułakowski

Ranking entities such as algorithms, devices, methods, or models based on their performances, while accounting for application-specific preferences, is a challenge. To address this challenge, we establish the foundations of a universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sébastien Piérard , Anaïs Halin , Anthony Cioppa , Adrien Deliège , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Providing natural language-based explanations to justify recommendations helps to improve users' satisfaction and gain users' trust. However, as current explanation generation methods are commonly trained with an objective to mimic existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yurou Zhao , Yiding Sun , Ruidong Han , Fei Jiang , Lu Guan , Xiang Li , Wei Lin , Weizhi Ma , Jiaxin Mao

A key feature of human theory-of-mind is the ability to attribute beliefs to other agents as mentalistic explanations for their behavior. But given the wide variety of beliefs that agents may hold about the world and the rich language we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Lance Ying , Almog Hillel , Ryan Truong , Vikash K. Mansinghka , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tan Zhi-Xuan

Emotions that somebody develops based on an argument do not only depend on the argument itself - they are also influenced by a subjective evaluation of the argument's potential impact on the self. For instance, an argument to ban plastic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lynn Greschner , Sabine Weber , Roman Klinger

In this paper, we argue for a paradigm shift from the current model of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), which may be counter-productive to better human decision making. In early decision support systems, we assumed that we could…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Tim Miller

Significant attention has been paid to enhancing recommender systems (RS) with explanation facilities to help users make informed decisions and increase trust in and satisfaction with the RS. Justification and transparency represent two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mouadh Guesmi , Mohamed Amine Chatti , Shoeb Joarder , Qurat Ul Ain , Clara Siepmann , Hoda Ghanbarzadeh , Rawaa Alatrash

A myriad of explainability methods have been proposed in recent years, but there is little consensus on how to evaluate them. While automatic metrics allow for quick benchmarking, it isn't clear how such metrics reflect human interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Ana Valeria Gonzalez , Anna Rogers , Anders Søgaard

Item ranking systems support users in multi-criteria decision-making tasks. Users need to trust rankings and ranking algorithms to reflect user preferences nicely while avoiding systematic errors and biases. However, today only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I. Al Hazwani , J. Schmid , M. Sachdeva , J. Bernard

Explanations are well-known to improve recommender systems' transparency. These explanations may be local, explaining an individual recommendation, or global, explaining the recommender model in general. Despite their widespread use, there…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Marissa Radensky , Doug Downey , Kyle Lo , Zoran Popović , Daniel S. Weld

In the Internet era the information overload and the challenge to detect quality content has raised the issue of how to rank both resources and users in online communities. In this paper we develop a general ranking method that can…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-23 Hao Liao , Giulio Cimini , Matus Medo

For AI systems to garner widespread public acceptance, we must develop methods capable of explaining the decisions of black-box models such as neural networks. In this work, we identify two issues of current explanatory methods. First, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Oana-Maria Camburu , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Jakob Foerster , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Phil Blunsom

Path reasoning is a notable recommendation approach that models high-order user-product relations, based on a Knowledge Graph (KG). This approach can extract reasoning paths between recommended products and already experienced products and,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Giacomo Balloccu , Ludovico Boratto , Christian Cancedda , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

Large-scale AI models such as GPT-4 have accelerated the deployment of artificial intelligence across critical domains including law, healthcare, and finance, raising urgent questions about trust and transparency. This study investigates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Allen Daniel Sunny

Matching companies and investors is usually considered a highly specialized decision making process. Building an AI agent that can automate such recommendation process can significantly help reduce costs, and eliminate human biases and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Simerjot Kaur , Ivan Brugere , Andrea Stefanucci , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Sameena Shah , Manuela Veloso

The convincingness of an argument does not only depend on its structure (logos), the person who makes the argument (ethos), but also on the emotion that it causes in the recipient (pathos). While the overall intensity and categorical values…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lynn Greschner , Meike Bauer , Sabine Weber , Roman Klinger

Explanations in a recommender system assist users in making informed decisions among a set of recommended items. Great research attention has been devoted to generating natural language explanations to depict how the recommendations are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Peng Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongning Wang

The general use of subjective probabilities to model belief has been justified using many axiomatic schemes. For example, ?consistent betting behavior' arguments are well-known. To those not already convinced of the unique fitness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Paul Snow