Team works to develop collaborative intelligent agents to monitor networks.
Imagine being able to deploy an army of software robots intelligent enough to cooperate with one another to monitor and defend the largest networks. Instead of independent devices doing a single task and reporting to a central console, the cybots would collaborate to accomplish their missions. That is the goal of the Ubiquitous Network Transient Autonomous Mission Entities program that a team of researchers is developing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "UNTAME is a distributed, intelligent framework," said Joe Trien of the lab's Computational Sciences and Engineering Division. The prototype network supports existing commercial tools and security devices, enabling traditional point-to-point solutions to cooperate and provide situational awareness and response capabilities in near real time. UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division's Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. "You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission," said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project's developers. more... http://gcn.com/articles/2009/02/23/oak-ridge-explores-cybots.aspx _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
