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Agents for Preserving Privacy: Learning and Decision Making Collaboratively

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    Abstract

    Privacy is a right of individuals to keep personal information to themselves. Often online systems enable their users to select what information they would like to share with others and what information to keep private. When an information pertains only to a single individual, it is possible to preserve privacy by providing the right access options to the user. However, when an information pertains to multiple individuals, such as a picture of a group of friends or a collaboratively edited document, deciding how to share this information and with whom is challenging as individuals might have conflicting privacy constraints. Resolving this problem requires an automated mechanism that takes into account the relevant individuals’ concerns to decide on the privacy configuration of information. Accordingly, this paper proposes an auction-based privacy mechanism to manage the privacy of users when information related to multiple individuals are at stake. We propose to have a software agent that acts on behalf of each user to enter privacy auctions, learn the subjective privacy valuations of the individuals over time, and to bid to respect their privacy. We show the workings of our proposed approach over multiagent simulations.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationMulti-Agent Systems and Agreement Technologies
    Subtitle of host publication17th European Conference, EUMAS 2020, and 7th International Conference, AT 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 14-15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsNick Bassiliades, Georgios Chalkiadakis, Dave de Jonge
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages116-131
    Number of pages16
    Edition1
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-66412-1
    ISBN (Print)978-3-030-66411-4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume12520
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Keywords

    • Multiagent systems
    • Online social networks
    • Privacy

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