Research Article
Organized Anonymous Agents
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/IAS.2007.34, author={Martijn Warnier and Frances Brazier}, title={Organized Anonymous Agents}, proceedings={3rd International ICST Symposium on Information Assurance and Security}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={IAS}, year={2007}, month={9}, keywords={Data privacy Identity management systems Information security Intelligent agent Intelligent systems Law Legal factors Middleware Relays Routing}, doi={10.1109/IAS.2007.34} }- Martijn Warnier
Frances Brazier
Year: 2007
Organized Anonymous Agents
IAS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.34
Abstract
Anonymity can be of great importance in distributed agent applications such as e-commerce & auctions. This paper proposes and analyzes a new approach for organized anonymity of agents based on the use of pseudonyms. A novel naming scheme is presented that can be used by agent platforms to provide automatic anonymity for all agents on its platform, or, alternatively, to provide anonymity on demand. The paper also introduces a new technique, based on the use of handles, that can be fully integrated in an agent platform. Performance measures for an anonymity service implemented for the AgentScape platform provides some insight in the overhead involved.
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