3rd International Workshop on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems (SASEMAS '06)
To be held in Conjunction with the Fifth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2006), Future University, Hakodate, Japan.8 May, 2006.
Update: Workshop proceedings are online.
About the Workshop
As intelligent autonomous agents and multi-agent 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.
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. New techniques and perspectives are required to assist with the development and deployment of such systems.
^ TOPOrganizing Committee
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Haralambos Mouratidis
Email: haris@uel.ac.uk
School of Computing and Technology, University of East London
Longbridge Road, RM8 2AS, Dagenham, London, U.K.
Diana Spears
Department of Computer Science, University of Wyoming
Dept. 3315, 1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071, USAGeneral Chair: Mike Barley
Computer Science Department, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019
Auckland, New ZealandPublicity Chair: Amy Unruh
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, AustraliaFor more information, contact info06@sasemas.org