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Cybersecurity as an Application Domain for Multiagent Systems

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Munindar P. SinghAuthors Info & Claims

AAMAS '15: Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

Pages 1207 - 1212

Published: 04 May 2015 Publication History

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The science of cybersecurity has recently been garnering much attention among researchers and practitioners dissatisfied with the ad hoc nature of much of the existing work on cybersecurity. Cybersecurity offers a great opportunity for multiagent systems research. We motivate cybersecurity as an application area for multiagent systems with an emphasis on normative multiagent systems. First, we describe ways in which multiagent systems could help advance our understanding of cybersecurity and provide a set of principles that could serve as a foundation for a new science of cybersecurity. Second, we argue how paying close attention to the challenges of cybersecurity could expose the limitations of current research in multiagent systems, especially with respect to dealing with considerations of autonomy and interdependence.

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May 2015

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