ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Role-Based Access Control Models
Computer
Reconciling role based management and role based access control
RBAC '97 Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Role-based access control
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design
Proceedings of the third annual conference on Autonomous Agents
Inside Java 2 platform security architecture, API design, and implementation
Inside Java 2 platform security architecture, API design, and implementation
On agent-based software engineering
Artificial Intelligence
An Open Secure Mobile Agent Framework for SystemsManagement
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Role Modeling for Agent System Analysis, Design, and Implementation
IEEE Concurrency
User Authentication and Authorization in the Java(tm) Platform
ACSAC '99 Proceedings of the 15th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
Distributed management by delegation
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Agent-mediated electronic commerce: a survey
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Agent-based computing: promise and perils
IJCAI'99 Proceedings of the 16th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
A Policy Language for the Management of Distributed Agents
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
PoP -- An Automated Policy Replacement Architecture for PBNM
POLICY '02 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'02)
Context-Based Access Control for Ubiquitous Service Provisioning
COMPSAC '04 Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Computer Software and Applications Conference - Volume 01
Policy-Driven configuration and management of agent based distributed systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems IV
Agent-driven integration architecture for component-based software development
Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence VIII
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The agent paradigm has the potential to help in the development of applications for the open and heterogeneous Internet environment. Agents acting on the behalf of users can autonomously fulfil assigned goals, thus relieving users from complex and time-consuming tasks. Agent-based applications typically involve multiple agents, and each agent has to play a specific role that defines what the agent can and must do in order to achieve its application goal, and how it interacts with other agents and with the environment. This paper describes the integration of a policy language (Ponder) within an agent infrastructure (SOMA) in order to flexibly model agent roles and agent behaviour according to application specific requirements. The Ponder language is used to specify both agent permissions and duties and to model agent behaviour in terms of roles and relationships. SOMA is a rich infrastructure to support agent execution and provides a set of facilities that can help to build Ponder policy enforcement services. The integration of the two provides a flexible framework to the development and management of agent applications.