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A Secure Architectural Description Language for Agent Systems

Authors :
Louvain School of Management - Operations and Information
Mouratidis, Haris
Faulkner, Stéphane
Kolp, Manuel
Giorgini, Paolo
4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems
Louvain School of Management - Operations and Information
Mouratidis, Haris
Faulkner, Stéphane
Kolp, Manuel
Giorgini, Paolo
4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agents Systems
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

Multi-agent systems are now being considered a promising architectural approach for building Internet-based applications. One of the most critical and important aspects of software deployed on the web has always been the security of their architectures. However, despite considerable work in software architecture during the last decade, few research efforts have aimed at truly defining languages for designing and formalizing agent architectures and more specifically secure ones. This paper identifies the foundations for an architectural description language (ADL) to specify secure multi-agent systems. We propose a set of system design primitives and conceptualize it with the Z specification language to capture a "core" architectural model to build secure MAS architectures. We apply it on an e-commerce example to illustrate our proposal.

Details

Database :
OAIster
Notes :
English
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1130580337
Document Type :
Electronic Resource