Abstract
Trust has been recognized as an important aspect for mobile agent security. In this paper, we develop a logic based trust model which enables the capturing of a comprehensive set of trust relationships to enhance the security of conventional access control mechanisms in a mobile based applications. We first discuss the notion of trust and its relevance to mobile agent security. Next we define a logic program based language to facilitate the modelling process. To enforce the security related trustworthy behaviours, we then define a set of general rules to capture the semantics. Finally, the language is applied in a mobile agent context to demonstrate how the trust can be explicitly modelled and reasoned about to support better security decisions for the mobile agent based systems.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 84-95 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Volume | 5692 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Keywords
- access control
- authorization
- computer networks
- logic programming
- mobile agents (computer software)
- security measures
- trust