Title: Trust-enhanced secure mobile agent-based system design
Authors: David Foster, Vijay Varadharajan
Addresses: Information and Networked System Security Research, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia. ' Information and Networked System Security Research, Department of Computing, Macquarie University, North Ryde NSW 2109, Australia
Abstract: This paper presents a Security and Trust Enhanced Mobile Agent (SATEMA) architecture. It investigates some of the design decisions encountered during the development of the architecture and its implementation. In particular, we consider design issues such as security and trust policy management, support for multiple applications as well as with single- and multiple-hop scenarios using the proposed architecture. We discuss the design choices and describe the solutions that have been adopted in the architecture. We have implemented two applications, namely, a travel application and an auction application using this proposed SATEMA architecture.
Keywords: security; trust; distributed computing; mobile agents; agent-oriented software; agent-based systems; multi-agent systems; flight finder; travel; e-auctions; electronic auctions.
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOSE.2007.014407
International Journal of Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, 2007 Vol.1 No.2, pp.205 - 224
Published online: 05 Jul 2007 *
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