Multiagent Systems Protection

Abstract

Agent-systems can bring important benefits especially in applications scenarios where highly distributed, autonomous, intelligence, self-organizing, and robust systems are required. Furthermore, the high levels of autonomy and self-organizations of agent systems provide excellent support for developments of systems in which dependability is essential. Both Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence scenarios belong in this category. Unfortunately, the lack of appropriate security mechanisms, both their enforcement and usability, is hindering the application of this paradigm in real-world applications. Security issues play an important role in the development of multiagent systems and are considered to be one of the main issues to solve before agent technology is ready to be widely used outside the research community. In this paper, we present a software based solution for the protection of multiagent systems concentrating on the cooperative agents model and the protected computing approach.

Methods of Protecting the Distributed Computation in Multi-Agent System

“…The system must be operable at any set of computers, quantity and performance, have a high survivability -not to lose efficiency and perform the solution for the allotted task time resources when dynamically changing computing environment [2,3]. Currently, there are many different approaches for organization of the distributed calculations in computer network technology grid, metacomputing (BOINC, PVM, and others) [4].…”

“…In practice, modeling problems require the choice of the best solutions to not one, but multiple criteria (multiobjective optimization problem), which bring additional and not always solvable difficulties. If the object and its parameters are variable, time-dependent, in this case using more complex strategies for solving modeling tasks [1,2]. Choosing one of the many variants can require too much of the huge options that are not available even for the fastest computers.…”