Approach to solving security problems using meta-agents in multi agent system

  • Authors:
  • Esmiralda Moradian;Anne Håkansson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Science, Computer Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;Department of Information Science, Computer Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'08 Proceedings of the 2nd KES International conference on Agent and multi-agent systems: technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this paper, we present an approach of integrating meta-agents in Web Services. Web Services requires an appropriate level of security to support business systems to be used by anyone, anywhere, at anytime and any platform. However, the increased use of distributed systems with message passing produces a growing set of security problems. This especially concerns threats and attacks on Web Services consisting of transactions with valuable resources. To prevent possible attacks on Web Services, we propose using meta-agents over software agents in a multi-agent system. The multi-agent system consists of a network of software agents that secure the message passing at the transport and application levels. To avoid attacks on these agents, we use meta-agents to monitor the software agents' actions and then to direct the software agents' work. These meta-agents are also used to handle unexpected events in the actions of the software agents.