Agent-Oriented Privacy-Based Information Brokering Architecture for Healthcare Environments

Table 1

The brokering layer interaction categorized by the privacy concern of service requesters.

	Privacy attributes		Interaction
Case	𝐺	𝐼𝑑
1	Revealed	Revealed	(i) Receive service request.
			(ii) Forward request to broker-provider side.
			(iii) Deliver result to requester.
2	Hidden	Revealed	(iv) Retrieve service request posted by a requester.
			(v) Forwards request to broker-provider side.
			(vi) Store result to be retrieved by requester.
3	Revealed	Hidden	(vii) Postservice request to service repository.
			(viii) Requester to search repository and request service.
			(ix) Retrieve a service request that was stored by a requester.
			(x) Forward request to available and capable providers.
			(xi) Store result to be retrieved by requester.
4	Hidden	Hidden	(xii) Requester to store service request.
			(xiii) Retrieve service request that was stored by a requester.
			(xiv) Forward request to available and capable providers.
			(xv) Store result to be retrieved by requester.