Autonomic Agents for Survivable Security Systems

Abstract

Autonomic Systems are essentially about creating self-managing systems based on the biological metaphor of the non-conscious acting autonomic nervous system. The Autonomic initiative has been motivated by ever increasing complexity and total cost of ownership of today's system of systems. Autonomicity also offers inroads in terms of fault-tolerant computing and assisting in creating survivable systems. This paper examines the relevant technologies including Agents for engineering autonomicity and survivability in a secure location biometric system.

The Imminent Complexity Quagmire in Pervasive Computing--Autonomic Agents a Solution?

“…This evolution of the deployed system has confirmed the general direction is towards more and more complexity resulting on self-management to retain the system dependability and as such led to the investigation of designing the next generation system utilizing autonomic agents [10][11].…”

“…The proof of concept development of the Autonomic Access Control System or AACS followed from the agent solution architecture depicted in [10].…”

Engineering Vertical Orchestration: From Biometric Trace Events to Incident Reporting

“…When previously discussing the Survivable Secure System (SSS) [10] we also highlighted the concept of describing the design of a system in terms of high level abstract planes (Figure 1) [11] [12].…”

Targeting Prediction: Engineering a Distributed Event Processor for an Autonomic Biometric System

“…These aspects would concern longer term analysis of human and system behaviour to identify patterns that may require attention, for instance in the correction center scenario; inmate abnormal behaviour or intermittent fault/error patterns within the system. For example pattern and trend analysis of incidents and inmate behaviour to predict the emergence of bullying among inmates [6] [7].…”