EAN: 9783642048784

SAFETY AND SECURITY IN MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS - MIK...

As intelligent autonomous agents and multiagent system applications become more pervasive  it
becomes increasingly important to understand the risks associated with using these systems.
Incorrect or inappropriate agent behavior can have harmful - fects  including financial cost 
loss of data  and injury to humans or systems. For - ample  NASA has proposed missions where
multiagent systems  working in space or on other planets  will need to do their own reasoning
about safety issues that concern not only themselves but also that of their mission. Likewise 
industry is interested in agent systems that can search for new supply opportunities and engage
in (semi-) automated negotiations over new supply contracts. These systems should be able to
securely negotiate such arrangements and decide which credentials can be requested and which
credentials may be disclosed. Such systems may encounter environments that are only partially
understood and where they must learn for themselves which aspects of their environment are safe
and which are dangerous. Thus  security and safety are two central issues when developing and
deploying such systems. We refer to a multiagent system's security as the ability of the system
to deal with threats that are intentionally caused by other intelligent agents and or s- tems 
and the system's safety as its ability to deal with any other threats to its goals.

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