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Approach to solving security problems using meta-agents in multi agent system

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Esmiralda Moradian,

Anne HåkanssonAuthors Info & Claims

KES-AMSTA'08: Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications

Pages 122 - 131

Published: 26 March 2008 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present an approach of integrating meta-agents in Web Services. Web Services requires an appropriate level of security to support business systems to be used by anyone, anywhere, at anytime and any platform. However, the increased use of distributed systems with message passing produces a growing set of security problems. This especially concerns threats and attacks on Web Services consisting of transactions with valuable resources. To prevent possible attacks on Web Services, we propose using meta-agents over software agents in a multi-agent system. The multi-agent system consists of a network of software agents that secure the message passing at the transport and application levels. To avoid attacks on these agents, we use meta-agents to monitor the software agents' actions and then to direct the software agents' work. These meta-agents are also used to handle unexpected events in the actions of the software agents.

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Gandotra VArchana Singhal ABedi P(2011)Layered security architecture for threat management using multi-agent systemACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2020976.202098436:5(1-11)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2020976.2020984
Moradian EHåkansson A(2010)Controlling security of software development with multi-agent systemProceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part IV10.5555/1893971.1893983(98-107)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1893971.1893983

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KES-AMSTA'08: Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications

March 2008

909 pages

ISBN:3540785817

Editors:
Ngoc Thanh Nguyen
Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Information Science and Engineering, Wroclaw, Poland
,
Geun Sik Jo
Inha University, School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Incheon, Korea
,
Robert J. Howlett
University of Brighton, School of Environment and Technology, Brighton, UK
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Lakhmi C. Jain
University of South Australia, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, Australia

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Published: 26 March 2008

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Gandotra VArchana Singhal ABedi P(2011)Layered security architecture for threat management using multi-agent systemACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes10.1145/2020976.202098436:5(1-11)Online publication date: 30-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2020976.2020984
Moradian EHåkansson A(2010)Controlling security of software development with multi-agent systemProceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part IV10.5555/1893971.1893983(98-107)Online publication date: 8-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1893971.1893983

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