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A Distributed Security Approach for Intelligent Mobile Multiagent Systems

Authors : Barna Iantovics, Bogdan Crainicu

Published in: Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Intelligent systems are used for many difficult problems solving, like: clinical decision support, health status monitoring of humans etc. The intelligence could give to a system advantages versus a system that does not have intelligence. Software mobile agents as network-computing technology has been applied for various distributed problems solving like: ubiquitous healthcare, network administration etc. The endowment of mobile agents with intelligence is difficult. Another difficulty in mobile multiagent systems consists in the limited security of mobile agents against networks sources, other agents and hosts. In this chapter a novel mobile agent architecture called IntelligMobAg (Complex Intelligent Mobile Agent Architecture) is proposed. IntelligMobAg represents an extension of a previous mobile agent architecture called ICMA [(Iantovics in A new intelligent mobile multiagent system. IEEE Computer Society Press, Silver Spring, pp. 53–159, 2005), (Iantovics in A novel mobile agent architecture. Acta Universitatis Apulensis, Alba Iulia, vol. 11, pp. 295–306, 2006)]. The purpose of the proposal consists in the limitation of some disadvantages related with security and intelligence of an ICMA agent by including in the static part of an evolutionary subagent. In this chapter we will present some preliminary results related with the increased security and intelligence that emerge in a cooperative multiagent system formed by agents endowed with the proposed architecture.

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Title: A Distributed Security Approach for Intelligent Mobile Multiagent Systems
Authors: Barna Iantovics
Bogdan Crainicu
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advanced Intelligent Computational Technologies and Decision Support Systems
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-00466-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-00467-9

Copyright Year: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00467-9_15

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