Industrial applications of distributed AI
Communications of the ACM
Proceedings of the 24th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
A framework for secure execution of software
International Journal of Information Security
A secure architectural description language for agent systems
Proceedings of the fourth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Belief revision for AgentSpeak agents
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Enhancing performance of cooperating agents in real-time diagnostic systems
IJCAI'93 Proceedings of the 13th international joint conference on Artifical intelligence - Volume 1
A secure and auto-configurable environment for mobile agents in ubiquitous computing scenarios
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
In the track of the agent protection: a solution based on cryptographic hardware
MMM-ACNS'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mathematical methods, models and architectures for computer network security
Advances in Software Engineering
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After a first phase of great activity in the field of multi-agent systems, researchers seemed to lose interest in the paradigm, mainly due to the lack of scenarios where the highly distributed nature of these systems could be appropriate. However, recent computing models such as ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence have introduced the need for this type of highly distributed, autonomous and asynchronous computing mechanisms. The agent paradigm can play an important role and can suit the needs of many applications in these scenarios. In this paper we argue that the main obstacle for the practical application of multi-agent systems is the lack of appropriate security mechanisms. Moreover, we show that as a result of recent advances in security technologies, it is now possible to solve the most important security problems of agent-based systems.