[1]DING Lifu,YAN Gangfeng.A survey of the security issues and defense mechanisms of multi-agent systems[J].CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems,2020,15(3):425-434.[doi:10.11992/tis.201812015]
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A survey of the security issues and defense mechanisms of multi-agent systems

CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems[ISSN 1673-4785/CN 23-1538/TP] Volume: 15 Number of periods: 2020 3 Page number: 425-434 Column: 综述 Public date: 2020-05-05
Title:
A survey of the security issues and defense mechanisms of multi-agent systems
Author(s):
DING Lifu1;  YAN Gangfeng2
1. College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
2. Huanan Industrial Technology Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Guangzhou 510760, China
Keywords:
multi-agent system; distributed artificial intelligence; security threat; defense mechanism; network security; communication protocol; access control; coordination mechanism
CLC:
TP18;TP309
DOI:
10.11992/tis.201812015
Abstract:
Currently, multi-agent systems are an important branch of distributed artificial intelligence and an important means of solving large, complex, distributed, and difficult-to-predict problems. However, in an open network, multi-agent systems still face many security issues. Potential security threats are likely to affect the stability, speed, and accuracy of the practical applications of multi-agent systems. Based on the general models of currently known multi-agent systems, the potential security problems in multi-agent system communication protocol, access control, and coordination mechanism are introduced. Research on multi-agent system security problems is standardized, and feasible defense and privacy protection technologies in the system design process are summarized. Finally, the development trend of multi-agent system security research is analyzed.
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