Infrastructure for RBAC-MAS: An approach based on agent coordination contexts

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 443-467

  Viroli, Mirko ^a   Omicini, Andrea ^a   Ricci, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AGENT COORDINATION CONTEXTS (ACC); PROCESS ALGEBRAIC DESCRIPTION; ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC);

ACCESS CONTROL;

EID: 34248579034     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510701253674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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