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Call for Papers for the
Second International Workshop on
SECURITY OF MOBILE MULTIAGENT SYSTEMS (SEMAS-2002)
To be held at the
First International Joint Conference on
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems
AAMAS 2002
Bologna, Italy
July 15-19 2002
http://www.dfki.de/~kuf/semas/semas-2002/
The far reaching influence of the Internet has resulted in an
increased interest in agent technologies, which are poised to play a
key role in the implementation of successful Internet and WWW-based
applications in the future. While there is still considerable hype
concerning agent technologies, there is also an increasing awareness
of the problems involved. In particular, that these applications will
not be successful unless security issues can be adequately
handled. Although there is a large body of work on cryptographic
techniques that provide basic building-blocks to solve specific
security problems, relatively little work has been done in
investigating security in the multiagent system context. Related
problems are secure communication between agents, implementation of
trust models/authentication procedures or even reflections of agents
on security mechanisms. The introduction of mobile software agents
significantly increases the risks involved in Internet and WWW-based
applications. For example, if we allow agents to enter our hosts or
private networks, we must offer the agents a platform so that they can
execute correctly but at the same time ensure that they will not have
deleterious effects on our hosts or any other agents / processes in
our network. If we send out mobile agents, we should also be able to
provide guarantees about specific aspects of their behaviour, i.e., we
are not only interested in whether the agents carry-out their intended
task correctly. They must defend themselves against attacks initiated
by other agents, and survive in potentially malicious environments.
Agent technologies can also be used to support network security. For
example in the context of intrusion detection, intelligent guardian
agents may be used to implement active protection strategies on a
firewall or intelligent monitoring agents can be used to analyse the
behaviour of agents migrating through a network. Part of the
inspiration for such multi-agent systems comes from primitive animal
behaviour, such as that of guardian ants protecting their hill or from
biological immune systems.
Topics of Interest
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We welcome the submission of papers from the full spectrum of issues
associated with security in (mobile) multiagent systems, both in the
public Internet and in private networks. We particularly encourage
the discussion of the following topics:
- security policies for agent environments and multiagent systems
- security for agents (against other agents, malicious hosts, and
software failures)
- security for agent hosts (against agent attacks and agent
deficiency)
- security mechanisms that can be implemented by using
(mobile) multiple agents
- reasoning about security in agent architectures
- type-theoretic and formal models of security
- language-based security for (mobile) agents
- security through agents (for any form of malfunctioning in the
network)
- application of security mechanism in a (mobile) multiagent context
- integration of traditional security mechanisms to the agent realm
- design methodologies for secure (mobile) multiagent systems
- attacks on and analysis of existing security mechanisms/protocols
The workshop aims at bringing together people from the two relevant
research fields, information security, mobile agents, multiagent
systems, and agent-oriented programming. Consequently we would like
to encourage discussion papers, conceptual papers, system papers, and
application papers. It is planned to publish the workshop papers with
a scientific publisher after the workshop.
Submission Details
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To participate in the workshop you should submit an original research
paper of up to 5000 words (approximately 8 pages maximum) or a
position paper (up to 2000 words, approximately 3 pages) to the
workshop chair, to arrive no later than 19 March 2001. It is planned
to structure the workshops into invited talks, technical presentations
and panel discussions. The technical presentations will be selected
from the research papers. Formatting instructions can be found at
http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html and should be
strictly followed. The first page should include the full name and
contact details of at least one author (email and full postal
address). Electronic submissions are mandatory. Acceptable formats
are PDF and PostScript.
Important Dates:
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Submissions due Monday 22nd April 2002
Notifications sent Monday 6th May 2002
Camera ready version due Monday 3rd June 2002
Workshop Date 15th or 16th July 2002
Organisation:
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Klaus Fischer and Dieter Hutter, DFKI Saarbruecken, Germany
Program Committee:
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Sahin Albayrak, TU Berlin, Germany
David Basin, University of Freiburg, Germany
Hans-Juergen Buerckert, DFKI GmbH Saarbruecken, Germany
Ciaran Bryce, University of Geneve, Switzerland
Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
Stefan Poslad, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Volker Roth, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
Helmut Schwigon, BSI Bonn, Germany
Vipin Swarup, The MITRE Corp, USA
Christian Tschudin, Uppsala University, Sweden
Giuseppe Castagna, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Contact Person:
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Dr. Klaus Fischer
DFKI GmbH
Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Germany
Tel/Fax +49 681 302-3917/-2235
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
URL: http://www.dfki.de/~kuf/
