DataHives: Swarm-Based Triple Store Enhancement (demonstration)

The Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud is too big for efficient computation and too heterogeneous for standard materialization techniques to cope with. The purpose of the DataHives system is to solve both of these problems by utilizing swarm intelligence to enhance a curated dataset. The system spawns software agents that traverse the LOD cloud...

Can We Make Sense of the Notion of Trustworthy Technology?

In this paper we raise the question whether technological artifacts can properly speaking be trusted or said to be trustworthy. First, we set out some prevalent accounts of trust and trustworthiness and explain how they compare with the engineer’s notion of reliability. We distinguish between pure rational-choice accounts of trust, which do not...

A semantics for means-end relations