TY - GEN
T1 - Trust Management for Multi-Agent Systems Using Smart Contracts
AU - Lad, Kalpesh
AU - Akber Dewan, M. Ali
AU - Lin, Fuhua
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), a group of agents that work together to solve complex problems, always have concerns around trust management among the agents in a cyber physical system. With the technological advancements in decentralization, automation, and interactions between physical and software agents, the demand for using MAS is increasing though trust management between the agents remain challenging. To alleviate these challenges, the focus of this paper is to explore blockchain based smart contracts for trust management in MAS, especially in the following three aspects: analyzing the interaction mechanism of smart contracts within a MAS environment; providing a potential framework for smart contract based trust management for MAS; and finally, discussing the challenges of deploying and integrating smart contracts within a MAS framework. The outcome of this paper provides a novel approach to solidifying agent to agent trustworthy communication.
AB - Multi-Agent Systems (MAS), a group of agents that work together to solve complex problems, always have concerns around trust management among the agents in a cyber physical system. With the technological advancements in decentralization, automation, and interactions between physical and software agents, the demand for using MAS is increasing though trust management between the agents remain challenging. To alleviate these challenges, the focus of this paper is to explore blockchain based smart contracts for trust management in MAS, especially in the following three aspects: analyzing the interaction mechanism of smart contracts within a MAS environment; providing a potential framework for smart contract based trust management for MAS; and finally, discussing the challenges of deploying and integrating smart contracts within a MAS framework. The outcome of this paper provides a novel approach to solidifying agent to agent trustworthy communication.
KW - agent to agent communication
KW - blockchain
KW - consensus
KW - encryption
KW - multi-agent systems
KW - smart contracts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097648770&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech49142.2020.00080
DO - 10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech49142.2020.00080
M3 - Published Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85097648770
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE 18th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 18th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and IEEE 5th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020
SP - 414
EP - 419
BT - Proceedings - IEEE 18th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 18th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and IEEE 5th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020
T2 - 18th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 18th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing and 5th IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2020
Y2 - 17 August 2020 through 24 August 2020
ER -