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Security is a global issue for today’s businesses that operate at the crossroads on multiple e-supply chains. Organizations increasingly use agent technologies and web services that allow assembling unique business processes. Businesses share information and manage electronic transactions with trading partners throughout the e-supply chains. The key factor in business success is decisions made on the basis of correct information that needs to be protected. In this paper, we present an approach of integrating web services and intelligent agents in supply chain in order to protect secret business information from being disclosed, modified and lost. To prevent loss and disclosure of sensitive information but also provide information integrity and availability, we apply meta-agents to monitor the software agents’ actions and then direct the software agents’ work.
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Moradian, E. (2008). Integrating Web Services and Intelligent Agents in Supply Chain for Securing Sensitive Messages. In: Lovrek, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85567-5_96
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