Authors:
Jan Kantert
1
;
Lukas Klejnowski
1
;
Sarah Edenhofer
2
;
Sven Tomforde
2
and
Christian Müller-Schloer
1
Affiliations:
1
Leibniz University Hanover, Germany
;
2
Augsburg University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Multi-agent-systems, Trust, Threatmodel, Norms, Desktop-grid System, Agents.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Self Organizing Systems
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Information and communication technology witnesses a raise of open, distributed systems that consist of various heterogeneous elements. Within such an environment, individual elements have to efficiently fulfil their goals, which may require cooperation with others. As a consequence, a variety of threats appears that need to be handled and circumvented in the entity’s behaviour. One major technical approach to provide a working environment for such systems is to introduce technical trust. In this paper, we present a basic threat model that comprises the most important challenges in this context – related to the basic system and the trust management, respectively. In order to illustrate the particular hazardous aspects, we discuss a Desktop Computing Grid application as scenario.