@article {4641, title = {Self-disclosure Decision Making based on Intimacy and Privacy}, journal = {Information Sciences}, volume = {211}, year = {2012}, pages = {93-111}, abstract = {Autonomous agents may encapsulate their principals{\textquoteright} personal data attributes. These attributes may be disclosed to other agents during agent interactions, producing a loss of privacy. Thus, agents need self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms to autonomously decide whether disclosing personal data attributes to other agents is acceptable or not. Current self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms consider the direct benefit and the privacy loss of disclosing an attribute. However, there are many situations in which the direct benefit of disclosing an attribute is a priori unknown. This is the case in human relationships, where the disclosure of personal data attributes plays a crucial role in their development. In this paper, we present self-disclosure decision-making mechanisms based on psychological findings regarding how humans disclose personal information in the building of their relationships. We experimentally demonstrate that, in most situations, agents following these decision-making mechanisms lose less privacy than agents that do not use them.}, keywords = {Information theory, Intimacy, multi-agent systems, Privacy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2012.05.003}, author = {Jose M. Such and Agust{\'\i}n Espinosa and ana garc{\'\i}a-fornes and Carles Sierra} }