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RESEARCH ARTICLE   Open Access    

A survey of privacy in multi-agent systems

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  • Abstract: Privacy has been a concern for humans long before the explosive growth of the Internet. The advances in information technologies have further increased these concerns. This is because the increasing power and sophistication of computer applications offers both tremendous opportunities for individuals, but also significant threats to personal privacy. Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are examples of the level of sophistication of computer applications. Autonomous agents usually encapsulate personal information describing their principals, and therefore they play a crucial role in preserving privacy. Moreover, autonomous agents themselves can be used to increase the privacy of computer applications by taking advantage of the intrinsic features they provide, such as artificial intelligence, pro-activeness, autonomy, and the like. This article introduces the problem of preserving privacy in computer applications and its relation to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It also surveys privacy-related studies in the field of multi-agent systems and identifies open challenges to be addressed by future research.
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    Jose M. Such, Agustín Espinosa, Ana García-Fornes. 2014. A survey of privacy in multi-agent systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review 29(3)314−344, doi: 10.1017/S0269888913000180
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A survey of privacy in multi-agent systems

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The Knowledge Engineering Review  29,  2014, 29(3): 314−344  |  Cite this article

Abstract: Abstract: Privacy has been a concern for humans long before the explosive growth of the Internet. The advances in information technologies have further increased these concerns. This is because the increasing power and sophistication of computer applications offers both tremendous opportunities for individuals, but also significant threats to personal privacy. Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems are examples of the level of sophistication of computer applications. Autonomous agents usually encapsulate personal information describing their principals, and therefore they play a crucial role in preserving privacy. Moreover, autonomous agents themselves can be used to increase the privacy of computer applications by taking advantage of the intrinsic features they provide, such as artificial intelligence, pro-activeness, autonomy, and the like. This article introduces the problem of preserving privacy in computer applications and its relation to autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It also surveys privacy-related studies in the field of multi-agent systems and identifies open challenges to be addressed by future research.

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    • This work has been partially supported by CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 under grant CSD2007-00022, and project TIN2011-27652-C03-00 of the Spanish Government.

    • http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

    • In this paper, we use the terms principal and user indistinctly to refer to the user that the agent is acting on behalf of. Principals are also called agent owners, or simply users in the related literature.

    • http://secondlife.com/

    • The Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/

    • OWL, http://www.w3.org/tr/owl-features/

    • Note that these anonymizers are not the same as the ones presented in Section 4.1.2.

    • http://docs.oasis-open.org/imi/identity/v1.0/identity.html

    • Software entities (intelligent agents, virtual organizations, etc.) cannot have real identities because, until now, they could not be held liable for their acts in front of the law. However, this may change in the future if they finally achieve some kind of legal personhood, as suggested by Chopra and White (2004) and Balke and Eymann (2008). In this case, software entities may be provided with legal personhood to be (partially) held liable for their acts. The point is that according to the law, someone must be liable for frauds like this.

    • Last.fm, http://www.last.fm

    • http://docs.oasis-open.org/imi/identity/v1.0/identity.html

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    Jose M. Such, Agustín Espinosa, Ana García-Fornes. 2014. A survey of privacy in multi-agent systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review 29(3)314−344, doi: 10.1017/S0269888913000180
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