
## 4. Conclusions

In the presented (position) paper, we have introduced the idea on giving explorative mind-maps a cognitive face. For this, we foster on a calculation of trust between conversing partners and argue that such an evaluation bases on the match of two existing knowledge structures. For that we have used two independent mind-maps Mp (self knowledge) and M∗
pq (knowledge about the conversational partner). Also the amount of trustworthiness is measured by a trust threshold α that is individually set.

Currently, we are refining the model and extending the described trust computational framework by additional substances, which include diverse experiments on matching functions, the assembling of the mind-maps per se (which probably may not depend on the conversation only), and other connectionist methods, which are not mentioned over here.

## Acknowledgement

The current work has been conducted at the University of Luxembourg. We thank the members of the MINE research group for their support.

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