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title: "Automated Reasoning and ACDCs: Secure Decentralized Reputation Algorithms"
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date: "2022-05"
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# Automated Reasoning and ACDCs: Secure Decentralized Reputation Algorithms

A 50-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith on using property graphs in Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) to reason with uncertainty, centered on decentralized reputation. It presents the author's Symmetric Multiple Elastic Constraint (SMEC) networks, computational reputation and its lexicon, portable identity and reputation, and platform network effects, with backup material from earlier reputation work.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/AR_ACDC_Rep.web.pdf (license not recorded).
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