A survey of security issue in multi-agent systems

  • Authors:
  • Youna Jung;Minsoo Kim;Amirreza Masoumzadeh;James B. Joshi

  • Affiliations:
  • LERSAIS, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA 15260;LERSAIS, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA 15260;LERSAIS, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA 15260;LERSAIS, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA 15260

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence Review
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

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.