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Distributed security for multi-agent systems – review and applications

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  • Author(s): H.F. Rashvand 1 ; K. Salah 2 ; J.M.A. Calero 3 ; L. Harn 4
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    • Affiliations: 1: University of Warwick, Director of Adv. Coms, School of Engineering & Editor-in-Chief, IET, Coventry, UK
      2: Associate Professor, Information & Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia
      3: Facultad de informatica Campus de Espinado s/n, Universidad de Murcia, Espinardo, Spain
      4: Department of Computer Science Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
  • Source: Volume 4, Issue 4, December 2010, p. 188 – 201
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-ifs.2010.0041 , Print ISSN 1751-8709, Online ISSN 1751-8717
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As two major communication technologies, the internet and wireless, are maturing rapidly to dominate our civilised life, the authors urgently need to re-establish users’ confidence to harvest new potential applications of large-scale distributed systems. Service agents and distributed multi-agent systems (MASs) have shown the potential to help with this move as the lack of trust caused by heavily compromised security issues and concerns coupled with the out-of-date solutions are hindering the progress. The authors therefore seek new remedies to ensure that the continuity in developing new economies is maintained through building new solutions to address today's techno-economical problems. Following a scan of the literature the authors discuss the state-of-the-art progress followed by some observations and remarks for the researchers in the field. Here the authors recognise the need for new ‘distributed security’ solutions, as an overlay service, to rejuvenate and exploit the distributed artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for secure MAS as a natural solution to pave the way to enable a long awaited application paradigm of the near future.

Inspec keywords: distributed processing; multi-agent systems; security of data; large-scale systems

Other keywords: large scale distributed systems; distributed artificial intelligence; service agents; Internet; distributed security; distributed multiagent systems; MAS; techno-economical problems

Subjects: Data security; Distributed systems software; Expert systems and other AI software and techniques

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