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ELVIRA: An Explainable Agent for Value and Utility-Driven Multiuser Privacy

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Francesca Mosca,

Jose M. SuchAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '21: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems

Pages 916 - 924

Published: 03 May 2021 Publication History

Abstract

Online social networks fail to support users to adequately share co-owned content, which leads to privacy violations. Scholars proposed collaborative mechanisms to support users, but they did not satisfy one or more requirements needed according to empirical evidence in this domain, such as explainability, role-agnosticism, adaptability, and being utility- and value-driven. We present ELVIRA, an agent that supports multiuser privacy, whose design meets all these requirements. By considering the sharing preferences and the moral values of users, ELVIRA identifies the optimal sharing policy. Furthermore, ELVIRA justifies the optimality of the solution through explanations based on argumentation. We prove via simulations that ELVIRA provides solutions with the best trade-off between individual utility and value adherence. We also show through a user study that ELVIRA suggests solutions that are more acceptable than existing approaches and that its explanations are also more satisfactory.

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