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Distributed multi-agent systems propose new infrastructure solutions to support the interoperability of electronic services. Security is a central issue for such infrastructures and is compounded by their intrinsic openness, heterogeneity and because of the autonomous and potentially self-interested nature of the agents therein. This article reviews the work that the FIPA agent standards body has undertaken to specify security in multi-agent systems. This enables a discussion about the main issues that developers have to face at different levels (i.e., intra-platform, inter-platform and application level) when developing agent-based security solutions in various domains.
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Poslad, S., Charlton, P., Calisti, M. (2003). Specifying Standard Security Mechanisms in Multi-agent Systems. In: Falcone, R., Barber, S., Korba, L., Singh, M. (eds) Trust, Reputation, and Security: Theories and Practice. TRUST 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2631. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36609-1_13
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