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Anonymity Architecture for Mobile Agent Systems

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Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing (HoloMAS 2007)

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The paper presents a new security architecture for MAS, which supports anonymity of agent owners. The architecture is composed of two main elements: Module I: Untraceability Protocol Infrastructure and Module II: Additional Untraceability Support. Module I is based on the recently proposed untraceability protocol for MAS and it forms the core of the anonymity architecture, which can be supported by the elements of the second module. This part of architecture was implemented and provided to MAS users. Module II instead, is defined in abstract way, through high-level description of its components.

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Leszczyna, R. (2007). Anonymity Architecture for Mobile Agent Systems. In: Mařík, V., Vyatkin, V., Colombo, A.W. (eds) Holonic and Multi-Agent Systems for Manufacturing. HoloMAS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4659. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74481-8_10

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