: The use of agent paradigm in today’s applications is hampered by the security concerns of agents and hosts alike. The agents require the presence of a secure and trusted execut...
Recently proposed usage control concept and models extend traditional access control models with features for contemporary distributed computing systems, including continuous acce...
We present a general framework for reasoning about network worms and analyzing the potency of worms within a specific network. First, we present a discussion of the life cycle of ...
As wide-area open networks like the Internet and intranets grow larger, mobile agent technology is attracting more attention. Mobile agents are units of software that can deal wit...
Abstract—The security mechanisms employed in current networked environments are increasingly complex, and their configuration management has an important role for the protection...