Reasoning about the impacts of information sharing

Yuqing Tang; Federico Cerutti; Nir Oren; Chatschik Bisdikian

doi:10.1007/s10796-014-9521-6

Reasoning about the impacts of information sharing

Yuqing Tang^*, Federico Cerutti, Nir Oren, Chatschik Bisdikian

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Abstract

Shared information can benefit an agent, allowing others to aid it in its goals. However, such information can also harm, for example when malicious agents are aware of these goals, and can then thereby subvert the goal-maker’s plans. In this paper we describe a decision process framework allowing an agent to decide what information it should reveal to its neighbours within a communication network in order to maximise its utility. We assume that these neighbours can pass information onto others within the network. The inferences made by agents receiving the messages can have a positive or negative impact on the information providing agent, and our decision process seeks to assess how a message should be modified in order to be most beneficial to the information producer. Our decision process is based on the provider’s subjective beliefs about others in the system, and therefore makes extensive use of the notion of trust with regards to the likelihood that a message will be passed on by the receiver, and the likelihood that an agent will use the information against the provider. Our core contributions are therefore the construction of a model of information propagation; the description of the agent’s decision procedure; and an analysis of some of its properties.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	725-742
Number of pages	18
Journal	Information Systems Frontiers
Volume	17
Issue number	4
Early online date	19 Aug 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-014-9521-6
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2015

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Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Leon van der Torre for his insightful comments on an early draft of this work. This research was sponsored by US Army Research laboratory and the UK Ministry of Defence and was accomplished under Agreement Number W911NF-06-3-0001. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the US Army Research Laboratory, the U.S. Government, the UK Ministry of Defence, or the UK Government. The US and UK Governments are authorised to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation hereon.
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Chatschik Bisdikian who recently passed away.

Keywords

Impacts
Information sharing
Risk
Trust

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