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Costs of Protecting Privacy in Agent Trust Relationships

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Abstract

In this paper we remarked the relevance of using of privacy-protection measures in trust models, since them imply conscious exchanges of opinions about third parties. Additionally to the already published description of the extra message exchanges that would protect privacy in a agent-mediated trust domain as ART testbed, we evaluate (through estimated weights) the communication and computation cost of these additional message exchanges at the level of their interactions. Although the effects of introducing them on the accuracy of trust valuations could also be considered in future works, in this contribution we focus our attention in an approach based on the weight of the information brought by an interaction.

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This work was supported in part by Projects MINECO TEC2012-37832-C02-01, CICYT TEC2011-28626-C02-02, CAM CONTEXTS (S2009/TIC-1485).

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    Mar Lopez, Javier Carbo & Jose M. Molina

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Lopez, M., Carbo, J., Molina, J.M. (2015). Costs of Protecting Privacy in Agent Trust Relationships. In: Bajo, J., et al. Highlights of Practical Applications of Agents, Multi-Agent Systems, and Sustainability - The PAAMS Collection. PAAMS 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 524. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19033-4_15

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