Design Issues for Information Assurance with Agents: Coordination Protocols and Role Combination in Agents.

摘要

This report is a consolidation of work that has been done to fulfill the goals defined in the CERIAS Research Proposal, 'Active Protocols and Agents for Information Assurance in Networked Enterprises'. According to the proposal, the development of an spent System for information assurance will follow two Stages: Design of active, combined task and assurance protocols Development of active, secure task autonomous agents Part I of the report deals with the issues involved in the design of a protocol for an agent system. An agent protocol is viewed as a coordination structure between agents whose design will affect the effectiveness and efficiency of the assurance system. Subsequently, three techniques of coordination are studied: organizational structures, meta-level information exchange and multi-agent planning. It was noted in the study that the different coordination structures affect.