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Developing Secure Agent Infrastructures with Open Standards and Open-Source Technologies

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Book cover Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems

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Security and privacy are key issues for open Multiagent Systems in which previously unknown parties can interact to each other. There are some Agent Platforms that provide support for both security and privacy. However, these Agent Platforms fail to provide openness and interoperability that are also crucial for developing secure and open Multiagent Systems. In this paper we present a security infrastructure that is based on open standards (AMQP, SSL, SASL, X.509 certificates, WS-Security, FIPA-ACL) and open-source technologies (Qpid, NSS, Axis2, Rampart). This infrastructure provides unique features regarding security and privacy on the one hand, and openness and interoperability on the other hand.

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  1. Department de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, València, Spain

    Joan Bellver, Jose M. Such, Agustin Espinosa & Ana Garcia-Fornes

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  1. Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Compañía 5, 37002, Salamanca, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  2. Departamento de Informática y Automática Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced, 37008, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado  & María N. Moreno  & 

  3. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia , Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

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  4. Fondamentale de Lille) UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, LIFL (Laboratoire d’Informatique, Bâtiment M3 (extension), 59655, Villeneuve d’Ascq Cedex, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  5. Departamento de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación E.P.S. de Linares, Universidad de Jaén, Área de Ingeniería Telemática, C/ Alfonso X el Sabio, 28, 23700, Linares (Jaén), Spain

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  6. Departamento de Ingeniería Informática, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Calle Francisco Tomás y Valiente, 11, 28049, Madrid, Spain

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  7. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Escuela de Ingenieros Industriales de Albacete, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071, Spain

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Bellver, J., Such, J.M., Espinosa, A., Garcia-Fornes, A. (2011). Developing Secure Agent Infrastructures with Open Standards and Open-Source Technologies. In: Pérez, J.B., et al. Highlights in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19917-2_5

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