Modeling secure systems using an agent-oriented approach and security patterns

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 471-498

  Mouratidis, Haralambos ^a   Weiss, Michael ^b   Giorgini, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent oriented software engineering; Patterns; Security; Tropos

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AGENT-ORIENTED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATTERNS; TROPOS;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33745804721     PISSN: 02181940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218194006002823     Document Type: Article

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