Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of Systems - October 2014

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PI(s):  Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle, Munindar Singh
Researchers:  Bennet Y. Narron

HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED

• Policy-Governed Secure Collaboration - Norms provide a standard of correctness for collaborative behavior, with respect to which policies of the participants can be evaluated individually or in groups.
• Resilient Architectures - The study of robustness and resilience of systems modeled in terms of norms would provide a basis for understanding resilient social architectures.

PUBLICATIONS
Report papers written as a results of this research. If accepted by or submitted to a journal, which journal. If presented at a conference, which conference.

None yet.

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We have developed prototype multiagent systems of simple structure on which to build more complex simulations of norms and policies on system properties.
• We have developed a simplified model for an academic security setting that identifies the main stakeholders, norms that promote security, internal policies by which parties may autonomously decide to comply with (or not) different norms. We have realized this model in our multiagent simulation framework and are using the model not only to refine our understanding of the robustness, liveness, and resilience of norms as they pertain to security but also as a basis for understanding the requirements on a sufficiently expressive simulation framework.