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A buddy model of security for mobile agent communities operating in pervasive scenarios

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Arkady Zaslavsky, and

Maria IndrawanAuthors Info & Claims

ACSW Frontiers '04: Proceedings of the second workshop on Australasian information security, Data Mining and Web Intelligence, and Software Internationalisation - Volume 32

January 2004

Pages 17 - 25

Published: 01 January 2004 Publication History

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This paper examines the security aspects of different pervasive scenarios involving agent communities evolved using multi agent systems (MAS). It describes the motivation and the objectives behind the development of these agent communities and analyses the security vulnerabilities, which arise within them. To counter these vulnerabilities, the paper proposes a Buddy model of security for the agent community. In this model, every agent protects its neighbour within the community, thereby sharing the responsibilities of the security function. This feature makes it a better option as compared to other hierarchical models of security, which can be brought down by a concerted attack at the controller agent. This paper also demonstrates the applicability and the effectiveness of the Buddy model in different pervasive scenarios and makes a strong case for its adoption.

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Cheribi HAmraoui NBouramoul AKholladi MHamdan HToral-Cruz HAkleylek SMcheick HBoubiche D(2017)Context-awareness security model based on multi-agents system operating in complex environmentProceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet of things, Data and Cloud Computing10.1145/3018896.3036382(1-8)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3018896.3036382
Srivastava SNandi G(2014)Self-reliant mobile codeJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2013.01.00437(62-75)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2013.01.004
Bell MHall MChalmers MGray PBrown B(2006)DominoProceedings of the 4th international conference on Pervasive Computing10.1007/11748625_10(153-168)Online publication date: 7-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11748625_10

Index Terms

A buddy model of security for mobile agent communities operating in pervasive scenarios
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Distributed artificial intelligence
      1. Multi-agent systems
2. Networks
  1. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks

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January 2004

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Cheribi HAmraoui NBouramoul AKholladi MHamdan HToral-Cruz HAkleylek SMcheick HBoubiche D(2017)Context-awareness security model based on multi-agents system operating in complex environmentProceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet of things, Data and Cloud Computing10.1145/3018896.3036382(1-8)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3018896.3036382
Srivastava SNandi G(2014)Self-reliant mobile codeJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2013.01.00437(62-75)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2013.01.004
Bell MHall MChalmers MGray PBrown B(2006)DominoProceedings of the 4th international conference on Pervasive Computing10.1007/11748625_10(153-168)Online publication date: 7-May-2006
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/11748625_10

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