Research Article
Agent-Oriented Privacy-Based Information Brokering Architecture for Healthcare Environments
Table 2
The brokering layer interaction categorized by the privacy concern of service providers.
| | Privacy attributes | Interaction | Case | | |
| 1 | Revealed | Revealed | (i) Search for capable provider.
| (ii) Forward request.
| (iii) Negotiate and assign a service request.
| (iv) Get service result and deliver result. |
| 2 | Hidden | Revealed | (v) Postservice request to service repository.
| (vi) Providers to access service repository.
| (vii) Providers to evaluate service parameters
| (viii) Store result.
| (ix) Brokering layer to retrieve and deliver result. |
| 3 | Revealed | Hidden | (x) Forward service request.
| (xi) Provider to evaluate request.
| (xii) Brokering layer to receive and deliver result back. |
| 4 | Hidden | Hidden | (xiii) Providers to access repository.
| (xiv) Provider to evaluate request.
| (xv) Provider to store service result. | (xvi) Brokering layer to retrieve and deliver result back. |
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