A Delegation-Based Approach for Designing Secure Multi-Agent Systems

This research addresses some of the limitations of current software engineering approaches for designing secure multiagent system architectures. It provides an extension of the Tropos framework to assist (even non-security oriented) developers in considering security issues during the development of multiagent systems using the same concepts and notations throughout all the development stage. It extends Tropos with delegation concepts and proposes a catalogue of re-usable security patterns.