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An Access Control Scheme for Multi-agent Systems over Multi-Domain Environments

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

Carlos Martínez-Garcia; Guillermo Navarro-Arribas; Joan Borrell; Abraham Martín-Campillo

Source:

7th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2009), Springer Berlin, Volume 55/2009, Salamanca, Spain, p.401-410 (2009)

ISBN:

978-3-642-00486-5

URL:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/y01717147p60330v

Keywords:

access control; agents

Abstract:

Multi-agent systems and mobile agents are enabling the deployment of applications in multi-domain environments. In these scenarios, different domains interact toward the same goal through resource sharing. As a result, there is the need to control the actions that an agent can perform in a foreign domain, with the only information of where it comes from and which roles does it hold in its own domain. However, this information will not be directly understandable as domains may not share the same role definitions.
MedIGS is a multi-agent middleware for the medical data sharing between hospitals which take part of a multi-domain environment. In this paper, a distributed access control for MedIGS is presented. Based on attribute conversion, this authorization scheme proposes a solution with a minimum impact in the local access control systems of the hospitals.

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