A survey of security issue in multi-agent systems

Multi-agent systems have attracted the attention of researchers because of agents’ automatic, pro-active, and dynamic problem solving behaviors. Consequently, there has been a rapid development in agent technology which has enabled us to provide or receive useful and convenient services in a variety...

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Published in:The Artificial intelligence review 2012-03, Vol.37 (3), p.239-260
Main Authors: Jung, Youna, Kim, Minsoo, Masoumzadeh, Amirreza, Joshi, James B. D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Agents (artificial intelligence)
Artificial Intelligence
Banking
Computer Science
Dynamical systems
Expert systems
Health care
Intelligent agents
Problem solving
Reputations
Researchers
Security
Security management
Security services
Software
Transportation
Trust
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Summary:Multi-agent systems have attracted the attention of researchers because of agents’ automatic, pro-active, and dynamic problem solving behaviors. Consequently, there has been a rapid development in agent technology which has enabled us to provide or receive useful and convenient services in a variety of areas such as banking, transportation, e-business, and healthcare. In many of these services, it is, however, necessary that security is guaranteed. Unless we guarantee the security services based on agent-based systems, these services will face significant deployment problems. In this paper, we survey existing work related to security in multi-agent systems, especially focused on access control and trust/reputation, and then present our analyses. We also present existing problems and discuss future research challenges.
ISSN:0269-2821
1573-7462
DOI:10.1007/s10462-011-9228-8