Enforcing security in the AgentScape middleware

Proceedings of the 2008 Workshop on Middleware Security, MidSec 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 25-30

  Quillinan, Thomas B ^a   Warnier, Martijn ^a   Oey, Michel ^a   Timmer, Reinier ^a   Brazier, Frances ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AgentScape; Multi agent systems; Security policies

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE; SECURITY SYSTEMS; WEB SERVICES;

AGENTSCAPE; DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS; DISTRIBUTED RESOURCES; MIDDLEWARE SYSTEM; SECURITY ARCHITECTURE; SECURITY POLICY; SECURITY POLICY ENFORCEMENT; SELF-DIRECTED;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053016826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463342.1463347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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