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DAML-Based Policy Enforcement for Semantic Data Transformation and Filtering in Multi-agent Systems

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Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III (CEEMAS 2003)

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This paper describes an approach to runtime policy-based control over information exchange that allows a far more fine-grained control of these dynamically discovered agent interactions. The DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) is used to represent policies that may either filter messages based on their semantic content or transform the messages to make them suitable to be released. Policy definition, management, and enforcement are realized as part of the KAoS architecture. The solutions presented have been tested in the Coalition Agents Experiment (CoAX)—an experiment involving coalition military operations.

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  1. Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, Florida

    Niranjan Suri, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Andrzej Uszok, Maggie Breedy, Marco Carvalho, Renia Jeffers, Matt Johnson, Shri Kulkarni & James Lott

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    Niranjan Suri

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Suri, N. et al. (2003). DAML-Based Policy Enforcement for Semantic Data Transformation and Filtering in Multi-agent Systems. In: Mařík, V., Pěchouček, M., Müller, J. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Applications III. CEEMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2691. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45023-8_13

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