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SAC
2004
ACM
14 years 26 days ago
Using mobile agents as roaming security guards to test and improve security of hosts and networks
1 This paper discusses the design and implementation details of MAST (Mobile Agent-based Security Tool), a new mobile agentbased network security approach. MAST has been designed t...
Marco M. Carvalho, Thomas B. Cowin, Niranjan Suri,...
AGENTS
2001
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Scheduling multi-task multi-agent systems
We present a centralized and a distributed algorithms for scheduling multi-task agents in heterogeneous networks. Our centralized algorithm has an upper bound on the overall compl...
Rong Xie, Daniela Rus, Clifford Stein
IPCCC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A framework for distributed key management schemes in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
— Key management is a major challenge in the design and deployment of secure wireless sensor networks. A common assumption in most distributed key management schemes is that all ...
Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Jiankun Hu
AGENTS
1997
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Transportable Information Agents
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the s...
Daniela Rus, Robert S. Gray, David Kotz
ISI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Managing Security Threats and Vulnerabilities for Small to Medium Enterprises
– The difficulty in managing security threats and vulnerabilities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) is investigated. A detailed conceptual framework for asset and thre...
Cyril Onwubiko, Andrew P. Lenaghan