A lot of progress has been made to secure network communication, e.g., through the use of cryptographic algorithms. However, this offers only a partial solution as long as the com...
—Role-based Access Control (RBAC) is one of the most widespread security mechanisms in use today. Given the growing complexity of policy languages and access control systems, ver...
Abstract—Security is an important aspect for the future wireless networks. Since the number of network nodes increases constantly, and, in addition, the networks are decentralize...
Abstract. In this article we identify security threats and requirements for software agent systems in the context of an electronic market. A short description of our own agent syst...
provide a scalable and adaptable abstraction of the system architecture. Each agent is able to cooperate with other agents and thereby provide service advertisement and discovery f...