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This paper discusses the security issues in data driven coordination languages. These languages rely on a data space shared by the agents and used to coordinate their activities. We extend these languages with a main distinguishing feature, which is the possibility to define fine-grained state-based security conditions, associated with every datum in the shared space. Two main ideas makes it possible: the consideration of an abstraction of agents’ states in the form of data at language level and the introduction of a richer interaction mechanism than state-of-the-art templates. This novel security mechanism allows both agents and system designers to prohibit undesirable interactions.
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Zargayouna, M., Balbo, F., Haddad, S. (2010). Data Driven Language for Agents Secure Interaction. In: Dastani, M., El Fallah Segrouchni, A., Leite, J., Torroni, P. (eds) Languages, Methodologies, and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems. LADS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6039. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13338-1_5
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