Personalized Negotiation Based on Individualization: Incorporating Personalization into Peer-to-Peer System

In peer-to-Peer system user has control over what information about her could be released; however, inherent untrustworthiness of peers precludes her from deciding when, how and to what extent such information could be released. We have investigated a framework where users can personalize their information release policies. As opposed to simple request-response based communication, such individualization inherently necessitates a mechanism of negotiation. This mechanism of negotiation helps user to establish partial or full trust and based on these trust levels, user can release necessary information. To facilitate such individualization, we have presented negotiation enabled framework. In this paper, we provide extension to this work which facilitates selection of negotiation flavor on per-need-basis i.e. Personalized Negotiation. This is supported by negotiation protocol which defines the ordering of the messages and unique message structure that carries negotiation information.