RBAC for Organisation and Security in an Agent Coordination Infrastructure

  • Authors:
  • Andrea Omicini;Alessandro Ricci;Mirko Viroli

  • Affiliations:
  • DEIS, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy;DEIS, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy;DEIS, Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna, via Venezia 52, 47023 Cesena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

More and more the engineering of complex agent-based systems calls for infrastructural support for coordination and security issues integrated with services for the description and management of system organisation. This trend is evident in the state-of-the-art models adopted for the man- agement of security and organisation of complex information systems: in this context Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models are emerging as a reference architecture for integrating security issues - access control in particular - and (role-based) organisation management. In this paper we discuss how an RBAC-like model has been fruitfully exploited to extend an infrastructure for the coordination of agent-based systems -TuCSoN - with the support for organisation and security management, in particular as far as access control is concerned.