Security Patterns for Agent Systems

Security patterns capture the experiences of experts, allowing novices to rely on expert knowledge and solve security problems in a more systematic and structured way. So far, literature provides many examples of security patterns for object-oriented systems. However, no attempt has been made to document security patterns for multiagent systems. In this paper we present a set of patterns for secure agent systems that, currently, consisting of four patterns.

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