Modelling secure multiagent systems

Haralambos Mouratidis, Paolo Giorgini, Gordon Manson
2003 Proceedings of the second international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems - AAMAS '03  
Security plays an important role in the development of multiagent systems. However, a careful analysis of software development processes shows that the definition of security requirements is, usually, considered after the design of the system. This is, mainly, due to the fact that agent oriented software engineering methodologies have not integrated security concerns throughout their developing stages. The integration of security concerns during the whole range of the development stages could
more » ... lp towards the development of more secure multiagent systems. In this paper we introduce extensions to the Tropos methodology to enable it to model security concerns throughout the whole development process. A description of the new concepts is given along with an explanation of how these concepts are integrated to the current stages of Tropos. An example from the health care sector is used to illustrate the above.
doi:10.1145/860575.860713 dblp:conf/atal/MouratidisGM03 fatcat:tgnlbhhu4nfvzb4v35k6eh7dwe