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IJWIS
2007
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15 years 6 months ago
A security framework for agent-based systems
Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
Jamal Bentahar, Francesca Toni, John-Jules Ch. Mey...
CIA
2008
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Towards an Open Negotiation Architecture for Heterogeneous Agents
This paper presents the design of an open architecture for heterogeneous negotiating agents. Both the system level architecture as well as the architecture for negotiating agents a...
Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykh...
MA
1999
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Establishing a Secure Open-Environment for Using Mobile Agents in Electronic Commerce
Although mobile agents are a promising technology, the large-scale deployment of agents and the existence of hosts running agencies will not happen until proper security mechanism...
Paulo Marques, Luís Moura Silva, Joã...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Agent Surgery: The Case for Mutable Agents
We argue that mutable programs are an important class of future applications. The field of software agents is an important beneficiary of mutability. We evaluate existing mutabl...
Ladislau Bölöni, Dan C. Marinescu
CIA
2006
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
A Simple Argumentation Based Contract Enforcement Mechanism
Abstract. Agents may choose to ignore contract violations if the costs of enforcing the contract exceed the compensation they would receive. In this paper we provide an argumentati...
Nir Oren, Alun D. Preece, Timothy J. Norman