17th Annual Student Research Conference
Mathematics and Computer Science
The Future of Network Security: Intelligent Software Agents
Christopher H. Conway* and Mohamed A. Elidrisi
Dr. Jon Beck, Faculty Mentor
An agent is an autonomous software component that provides a series of tasks in order to accomplish its goals. Agents implement a Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) to function in a social system in which they communicate, cooperate and share knowledge. Typically, one agent runs on each computer in a cluster or networked group of computers. The agents are similar or identical at the outset, but each can evolve on its own. Our research focuses on an effort to utilize the social behaviors of the agents to slow down and even prevent the spread of corrupted data and viruses over large networks, thus avoiding crippling system-wide failures such as the Blaster Worm attack of 2003. We explore the effectiveness of network security through intelligent software agents by simulating an environment in which they will interact.
Keywords: Agent, AI, Autonomous, Network, Computer
Topic(s):Computer Science
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 9-3
Location: VH 1232
Time: 9:00