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Spatial Security Policies for Mobile Agents in a Sentient Computing Environment

Spatial Security Policies for Mobile Agents in a Sentient Computing Environment

Book SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer Berlin / Heidelberg
ISSN0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online)
VolumeVolume 2621/2003
BookFundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
DOI10.1007/3-540-36578-8
Copyright2003
ISBN978-3-540-00899-6
DOI10.1007/3-540-36578-8_8
Pages102-117
Subject CollectionComputer Science
SpringerLink DateWednesday, January 01, 2003
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Spatial Security Policies for Mobile Agents in a Sentient Computing Environment

David Scott5 Contact Information, Alastair Beresford5 Contact Information and Alan Mycroft6 Contact Information

(5)  Laboratory for Communications Engineering, University of Cambridge, USA
(6)  Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, CB3 0FD Cambridge, UK
Abstract
A Sentient Computing environment is one in which the system is able to perceive the state of the physical world and use this information to customise its behaviour. Mobile agents are a promising new programming methodology for building distributed applications with many advantages over traditional clientserver designs.We believe that properly controlled mobile agents provide a good foundation on which to build Sentient applications.
The aims of this work are threefold: (i) to provide a simple location-based mechanism for the creation of security policies to control mobile agents; (ii) to simplify the task of producing applications for a pervasive computing environment through the constrained use of mobile agents; and (iii) to demonstrate the applicability of recent theoretical work using ambients to model mobility.

Contact Information David Scott
Email: djs55@eng.cam.ac.uk

Contact Information Alastair Beresford
Email: arb33@eng.cam.ac.uk

Contact Information Alan Mycroft
Email: am@cl.cam.ac.uk
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