A role based coordination model in agent systems

作     者：张亚英 尤晋元 

作者机构：Dept. of Computer Science and Technology Shanghai Jiaotong University Shanghai 200030 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology(New Series)》 (哈尔滨工业大学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2005年第12卷第5期

页      码：555-561页

摘      要：Coordination technology addresses the construction of open, flexible systems from active and independent software agents in concurrent and distributed systems. In most open distributed applications, multiple agents need interaction and communication to achieve their overall goal. Coordination technologies for the Internet typically are concerned with enabling interaction among agents and helping them cooperate with each other. At the same time, access control should also be considered to constrain interaction to make it harmless. Access control should be regarded as the security counterpart of coordination. At present, the combination of coordination and access control remains an open problem. Thus, we propose a role Dased coordination model with policy enforcement in agent application systems. In this model, coordination is combined with access control so as to fully characterize the interactions in agent systems. A set of agents interacting with each other for a common global system task constitutes a coordination group. Role based access control is applied in this model to prevent unauthorized accesses. Coordination policy is enforced in a distributed manner so that the model can be applied to the open distributed systems such as Internet. An Internet online auction system is presented as a case study to illustrate the proposed coordination model and finally the performance analysis of the model is introduced.

主 题 词：coordination role access control policy enforcement 

学科分类：08[工学] 0835[0835] 081202[081202] 0812[工学-测绘类] 

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