result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …

result suggests that privacy mechanisms affect partner selection and the consequent structure of the network: when … privacy costs of revealing personal information are compensated by more productive links. …

With the increasing ease with which information can be shared in social media, the issue of privacy has become central … for the functioning of various online platforms. In this paper, we consider how privacy concerns affect individual choices … acquiring the information with others) through a percolation process over the equilibrium network. Privacy concerns are modeled …

analyzing privacy requirements and for analyzing privacy-related data. We outline a combination of requirements analysis …Privacy has been recognized as an important topic in the Internet for a long time, and technological developments in … the area of privacy tools are ongoing. However, their focus was mainly on the individual. With the proliferation of social …

In this paper, we study the formation of endogenous social storage cloud in a dynamic setting, where rational agents … build their data backup connections strategically. We propose a degree-distance-based utility model, which is a combination … placing its data on others’ storage devices, given the prevailing data loss rate in the network. The cost function of an agent …