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	𝐼𝑑	𝐶𝑎𝑝
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.