Online HTN Planning for Data Transfer and Utilization Considering Legal and Ethical Norms: Case Study

Hisashi Hayashi, Ken Satoh

2023

Abstract

Data transfer among servers is crucial for distributed data mining because many databases are distributed around the world. However, as data privacy is becoming more legally and ethically protected, it is necessary to abide by the laws and respect the ethical guidelines when transferring and utilizing data. Because information affecting legal/ethical decision-making is often distributed, the data-transfer plan must be updated online when new information is obtained while transferring data among servers. In this study, we propose a dynamic hierarchical task network (HTN) planning method that considers legal and ethical norms while planning multihop data transfers and data analyses/transformations. In our knowledge representation, we show that datatransfer tasks can be represented by the task-decomposition rules of total-order HTN planning. We also show that legal norms can be expressed as the preconditions of tasks and actions, and ethical norms can be expressed as the costs of tasks and actions where legal norms cannot be violated, but ethical norms can be violated if necessary following the ethical theory of utilitarianism. In the middle of the plan execution, the online planner dynamically updates the plan based on new information obtained in accordance with laws and ethical guidelines.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hayashi H. and Satoh K. (2023). Online HTN Planning for Data Transfer and Utilization Considering Legal and Ethical Norms: Case Study. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-623-1, pages 154-164. DOI: 10.5220/0011603000003393

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart23,
author={Hisashi Hayashi and Ken Satoh},
title={Online HTN Planning for Data Transfer and Utilization Considering Legal and Ethical Norms: Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2023},
pages={154-164},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011603000003393},
isbn={978-989-758-623-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Online HTN Planning for Data Transfer and Utilization Considering Legal and Ethical Norms: Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-623-1
AU - Hayashi H.
AU - Satoh K.
PY - 2023
SP - 154
EP - 164
DO - 10.5220/0011603000003393