A security-aware metamodel for multi-agent systems (MAS)

  • Authors:

  • G. Beydoun;G. Low;H. Mouratidis;B. Henderson-Sellers

  • Affiliations:

  • Faculty of Informatics, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia;School of Information Systems, Technology and Management Australian School of Business, The University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia;School of Computing and Technology, University of East London, 4-6 University Way, E16 2RD, London, United Kingdom;Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Information and Software Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper adopts a model-based security (MBS) approach to identify security requirements during the early stages of multi-agent system development. Our adopted MBS approach is underpinned by a metamodel independent of any specific methodology. It allows for security considerations to be embedded within any situated agent methodology which then prescribes security considerations within its work products. Using a standard model-driven engineering (MDE) approach, these work products are initially constructed as high abstraction models and then transformed into more precise models until code-specific models can be produced. A multi-agent system case study is used to illustrate the applicability of the proposed security-aware metamodel.