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A Conceptual Approach to Place Security in Systems of Mobile Agents

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2015)

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Mobile agents’ security is a major challenge for the expansion of their use. Actually, most research works have been interested in integrating mobile agents’ security requirements in the implementation stage. However, the integration of security requirements in the design stage could help towards the development of more secure systems based on mobile agents. In this paper, we are interested to model the security requirements of mobile agents in the design stage in order to protect places from malicious visitor agents. An example from a teleexpertise system is used to illustrate the proposed approach.

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  1. Institut Supérieur d’Informarique, Université El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

    Héla Hachicha

  2. Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion, Université de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia

    Donies Samet

  3. Institut Supérieur de Gestion, Université de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

    Khaled Ghedira

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  2. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Wolf Ketter

  3. Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Gal Kaminka

  4. Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany

    Gerd Wagner

  5. Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Hachicha, H., Samet, D., Ghedira, K. (2015). A Conceptual Approach to Place Security in Systems of Mobile Agents. In: Müller, J., Ketter, W., Kaminka, G., Wagner, G., Bulling, N. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies . MATES 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9433. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27343-3_9

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