Generative communication in Linda
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
Communications of the ACM
Coordination languages and their significance
Communications of the ACM
Authentication in distributed systems: theory and practice
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference Architecture
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
The ARBAC97 model for role-based administration of roles
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC) - Special issue on role-based access control
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
On the expressive power of a language for programming coordination media
SAC '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
A Roadmap of Agent Research and Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Coordination for Internet Application Development
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
An Actor-Based Architecture for Customizing and Controlling Agent Ensembles
IEEE Intelligent Systems
MAAMAW '99 Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World: MultiAgent System Engineering
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Unified support for heterogeneous security policies in distributed systems
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
An RBAC Based Policy Enforcement Coordination Model in Internet Environment
EDCIS '02 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering and Deployment of Cooperative Information Systems
Comparing three coordination models: Reo, ARC, and PBRD
Science of Computer Programming
A survey of security issue in multi-agent systems
Artificial Intelligence Review
Adaptive access control in coordination-based mobile agent systems
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
A coordination-based access control model for space-based computing
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Supporting Secure Coordination in SecSpaces
Fundamenta Informaticae
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Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, while coordination deals with enabling interaction and making it fruitful, access control is meant to control interaction to make it harmless. We argue that this twofold facet has to be supported by a system in a uniform and decentralised manner. To this end, we describe how the application of the TuCSoN tuple-based coordination model over a hierarchical topology is well-suited in this context. On the one hand, policies can be enforced by means of a single mechanism based on tuples and can be scoped to manage access to groups of distributed resources. On the other hand, agents can interact along a hierarchical infrastructure by applying a standard tuple-based communication template. This makes TuCSoN a single coherent framework for the design and development of Internet-based multiagent systems, which takes coordination as the basis for dealing with network topology and access control in a uniform way.