2nd International Workshop on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems (SASEMAS '05)
To be held in Conjunction with the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005),Utrecht, The Netherlands.
July 26, 2005.
Sponsored by The Boeing Company
Update: Workshop Proceedings are online.
About the Workshop
As intelligent autonomous agents and multi-agents systems applications become
more pervasive, it becomes increasingly important to understand the risks associated
with using these systems. Incorrect or inappropriate agent behaviour can have
harmful effects including financial cost, loss of data, and injury to humans
or systems.
Thus, security and safety are two central issues when developing and deploying such systems. We refer to a multiagent system's security as the ability of the system to deal with threats that are intentionally caused by other intelligent agents and/or systems, and the system's safety as its ability to deal with any other threats to its goals.
In complex and rich environments, such as multiagent system environments, it is often necessary to involve the agents of the system in achieving some of these design goals, by making the goals explicit for the agent itself. For example, the agent must be aware of user-specified safety conditions if it is going to avoid violating them. This often means that an agent needs to be able to identify, assess, and mitigate many of the risks it faces. This is particularly true when the agent is going to be deployed in dangerous environments without immediate user input; for example, command of a spacecraft where communication with mission control involves considerable delays. Moreover, agents often integrate such activities as deliberately planning to achieve their goals, dynamically reacting to obstacles and opportunities, communicating with other agents to share information and coordinate actions, and learning from and/or adapting to their environments. Because agents are often situated in dynamic environments, these activities are often time-sensitive. These aspects of agents make the process of developing, verifying, and validating safe and secure multiagent systems more difficult than for conventional software systems. Hence, new and different techniques and perspectives are required to assist with the development and deployment of such systems.
This workshop will serve as a forum to gather academics, researchers, practitioners, and students from the fields of safety, security and multiagent systems. ^ TOP
Student Support
There is limited student travel support available. Contact Mike Barley for more information
^ TOPChallenge Problems
In order to make many of the workshop issues more concrete, we are introducing a separate competition that will be associated with this workshop. This competition will consist of challenge problems for the design of safe and secure intelligent autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, as extensions to the RoboCup Rescue Simulation platform.
More detail will be available here soon.
^ TOPOrganizing Committee
^ TOPProgram Chair: Haralambos Mouratidis
Email: haris@uel.ac.uk
School of Computing and Technology, University of East London
Longbridge Road, RM8 2AS, Dagenham, London, U.K.General Chair: Mike Barley
Computer Science Department, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New ZealandPublication Chair: Fabio Massacci
Facoltá di Ingegneria, Universitá di Trento, Dipartimento Informatica e Telecomunicazioni
Via Sommarive, 14 - 38050 POVO (Trento) - ItalyPublicity Chair: Amy Unruh
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, AustraliaTechnical Chair: Nathan Schurr
Computer Science Department
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089For more information, contact info@sasemas.org
For more information about the RoboCup Rescue Challenge, contact rcr_challenge@sasemas.org
Workshop Sponsors
Sponsored by The Boeing Company