Terraforming cyberspace

Social Order and Adaptability in Animal and Human Cultures as Analogues for Agent Communities: Toward a Policy-Based Approach

“…From a technical perspective, we want to be able to help ensure the protection of agent state, the viability of agent communities, and the reliability of the resources on which they depend [12]. To accomplish this, we must guarantee, insofar as is possible, that the autonomy of agents can always be bounded by explicit enforceable policy that can be continually adjusted to maximize the agents' effectiveness and safety in both human and computational environments.…”

“…It is in this sense that what we have been doing might be thought of as creating "cultures" for agent communities, especially communities that might endure for long periods of time. We have termed this kind of approach "terraforming cyberspace" (referring to the aspect of the effort that aims to make networked environments a more habitable place for agents) and "cyberforming terraspace" (referring to the aspect of the effort that aims to embed socially-competent agents in the physical world) [12]. To support sustainability of groups of agents over long periods, we have envisioned basic types of services that will be needed (figure 1).…”

“…In addition to traditional concerns for safety and robustness in such systems [12], there are important social aspects relating to predictability, control, feedback, order, and naturalness of the interaction that must be attended to [8; 10; 50]. In this paper we investigate just some of the ways social order is maintained in animal and human realms (sections 2 and 3), with the goal of enriching our thinking about mechanisms that might be employed to enhance order in mixed human-agent teams.…”

“…Two actors, Agent A 11 We are exploring the relationship between policy and planning in new research with James Allen [2][9]. 12 More detail on this topic can be found in [9]. 13 We can make a rough comparison between some of these dimensions and the aspects of autonomy described by Falcone and Castelfranchi [25].…”

Intelligent System for Information Security Management: Architecture and Design

“…The design and programming of agents should be focused on maximizing their performance measure which embodies the criterion for success of an agent's behavior (Russell & Norvig, 2003). Other important issues that are required include portability, stability, resilience, and security of the agents and system (Bradshaw et al, 2001;Hamidi & Mohammadi, 2006). The interface should exhibit intelligent features that assist the user in decision making and taking actions to control the security process.…”