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International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems

International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems

COIN 2016, COIN 2016: Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII pp 3–21Cite as

Towards a Distributed Data-Sharing Economy

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Abstract

We propose that access to data and knowledge be controlled through fine-grained, user-specified explicitly represented policies. Fine-grained policies allow stakeholders to have a more precise level of control over who, when, and how their data is accessed. We propose a representation for policies and a mechanism to control data access within a fully distributed system, creating a secure environment for data sharing. Our proposal provides guarantees against standard attacks, and ensures data security across the network. We present and justify the goals, requirements, and a reference architecture for our proposal. We illustrate through an intuitive example how our proposal supports a typical data-sharing transaction. We also perform an analysis of the various potential attacks against this system, and how they are countered. Additionally, we provide details of a proof-of-concept prototype which we used to refine our mechanism.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    An attacker is any party (requestor, provider, or third party) who attempts to subvert the system.

  2. 2.

    This is an extra security precaution; assuming that all peers have public/private key pairs ensures that data can be sent across a peer-to-peer network securely.

  3. 3.

    A sybil attack [12] happens when one of the participants generates many fake ids to skew the balance of power in one’s own favour, as in, for instance, voting.

  4. 4.

    The source code for our implementation is https://github.com/Glenugie/REND-Peer.

  5. 5.

    https://blockchain.info/.

  6. 6.

    https://bitcoin.org/en/.

  7. 7.

    http://peersim.sourceforge.net/.

  8. 8.

    https://ifttt.com/.

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    Samuel R. Cauvin, Martin J. Kollingbaum, Derek Sleeman & Wamberto W. Vasconcelos

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Cauvin, S.R., Kollingbaum, M.J., Sleeman, D., Vasconcelos, W.W. (2017). Towards a Distributed Data-Sharing Economy. In: Cranefield, S., Mahmoud, S., Padget, J., Rocha, A. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XII. COIN COIN 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66595-5_1

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