TY  - Generic
T1  - A Review of Attacks and Security Approaches in Open Multi-agent Systems
Y1  - 2012
A1  - Shahriar Bijani
A1  - David Robertson
AB  - Open multi-agent systems (MASs) have growing popularity in the Multi-agent Systems community and are predicted to have many applications in future, as large scale distributed systems become more widespread. A major practical limitation to open MASs is security because the openness of such systems negates many traditional security solutions. In this paper we introduce and classify main attacks on open MASs. We then survey and analyse various security techniques in the literature and categorise them under prevention and detection approaches. Finally, we suggest which security technique is an appropriate countermeasure for which classes of attack.
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
T1  - The Use of Reputation as Noise-resistant Selection Bias in a Co-evolutionary Multi-agent System
T2  - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
Y1  - 2012
A1  - Nikolaos Chatzinikolaou
A1  - Dave Robertson
JF  - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference
CY  - Philadelphia
ER  - 

TY  - Generic
T1  - Intrusion Detection in Open Peer-to-Peer Multi-agent Systems
T2  - 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2011)
Y1  - 2011
A1  - Shahriar Bijani
A1  - David Robertson
AB  - One way to build large-scale autonomous systems is to develop open peer-to-peer architectures in which peers are not pre-engineered to work together and in which peers themselves determine the social norms that govern collective behaviour. A major practical limitation to such systems is security because the very openness of such systems negates most traditional security solutions. We propose a programme of research that addresses this problem by devising ways of attack detection and damage limitation that take advantage of social norms described by electronic institutions. We have analysed security issues of open peer-to-peer multi-agent systems and focused on probing attacks against confidentiality. We have proposed a framework and adapted an inference system, which shows the possibility of private information disclosure by an adversary. We shall suggest effective countermeasures in such systems and propose attack response techniques to limit possible damages.
JF  - 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management and Security (AIMS 2011)
T3  - Managing the dynamics of networks and services
PB  - Springer-Verlag Berlin
SN  - 978-3-642-21483-7
ER  - 

TY  - Generic
T1  - Probing Attacks on Multi-agent Systems using Electronic Institutions
T2  - Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Workshop (DALT), AAMAS 2011
Y1  - 2011
A1  - Shahriar Bijani
A1  - David Robertson
A1  - David Aspinall
JF  - Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies Workshop (DALT), AAMAS 2011
ER  - 

TY  - CHAP
T1  - Molecular Orbital Calculations of Inorganic Compounds
T2  - Inorganic Experiments
Y1  - 2010
A1  - C. A. Morrison
A1  - N. Robertson
A1  - Turner, A.
A1  - van Hemert, J.
A1  - Koetsier, J.
ED  - J. Derek Woollins
JF  - Inorganic Experiments
PB  - Wiley-VCH
SN  - 978-3527292530
ER  - 

TY  - CONF
T1  - Interaction as a Grounding for Peer to Peer Knowledge Sharing
T2  - Advances in Web Semantics
Y1  - 2007
A1  - Robertson, D.
A1  - Walton, C.
A1  - Barker, A.
A1  - Besana, P.
A1  - Chen-Burger, Y.
A1  - Hassan, F.
A1  - Lambert, D.
A1  - Li, G.
A1  - McGinnis, J
A1  - Osman, N.
A1  - Bundy, A.
A1  - McNeill, F.
A1  - van Harmelen, F.
A1  - Sierra, C.
A1  - Giunchiglia, F.
JF  - Advances in Web Semantics
PB  - LNCS-IFIP
VL  - 1
ER  -