Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

More and more the engineering of complex agent-based systems calls for infrastructural support for coordination and security issues integrated with services for the description and management of system organisation. This trend is evident in the state-of-the-art models adopted for the management of security and organisation of complex information systems: in this context Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models are emerging as a reference architecture for integrating security issues — access control in particular — and (role-based) organisation management. In this paper we discuss how an RBAC-like model has been fruitfully exploited to extend an infrastructure for the coordination of agent-based systems — TuCSoN — with the support for organisation and security management, in particular as far as access control is concerned.

Keywords: Role-based access control, multi-agent systems, coordination infrastructure

Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 128(5), pages 65-85, 3 May 2005.
Riccardo Focardi, Gianluigi Zavattaro (eds.), Elsevier Science B.V.
2nd International Workshop on Security Issues in Coordination Models, Languages and Systems (SecCo'04), 30 August 2004. Proceedings

@article{rbac-entcs128,
	Author = {Omicini, Andrea and Ricci, Alessandro and Viroli, Mirko},
	Doi = {10.1016/j.entcs.2004.11.045},
	Editor = {Focardi, Riccardo and Zavattaro, Gianluigi},
	Issn = {1571-0661},
	Journal = {Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science},
	Keywords = {Role-based access control, multi-agent systems, coordination infrastructure},
	Month = {3~} # may,
	Note = {2nd International Workshop on Security Issues in Coordination Models, Languages and Systems (SecCo'04), 30~} # aug # {~2004. Proceedings},
	Number = 5,
	Pages = {65--85},
	Publisher = {Elsevier Science B.V.},
	ScopusId = {2-s2.0-18444388612},
	Title = {{RBAC} for Organisation and Security in an Agent Coordination Infrastructure},
	Url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571066105001994},
	Volume = 128,
	Year = 2005}