Bezpecna komunikace v multi-agentnich systemech.

Abstract

Area of multi-agent systems (MAS) currently evolves rapidly on both, research and application basis. It is necessary to ensure a communication security during data transfer in real applications (in industry or e-business). Currently there are several libraries or programming language extensions offering security services available. However they are tailored to specific operating systems and thus useless, when an agents' mobility is required. WE propose a novel approach to the communication security useable for the mobile agents and with transparency to a programming language (operating system). Role of the central security authority, necessary for a correct function of security in MAS, is discussed here as well. Present-day systems are not able to work when this authority fails, but it is possible to partially eliminate this problem. Proposed approach has been implemented and verified within the multi-agent platform JADE.Available from STL Prague, CZ / NTK - National Technical LibrarySIGLECZCzech Republi