Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of Systems - October 2015

Public Audience
Purpose: To highlight project progress. Information is generally at a higher level which is accessible to the interested public. All information contained in the report (regions 1-3) is a Government Deliverable/CDRL.

PI(s):  Emily Berglund, Jon Doyle, Munindar Singh
Researchers:  Hongying Du, Bennett Y. Narron, Nirav Ajmeri

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.

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ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We refined our formal model of security-relevant interactions in sociotechnical systems with a view to characterizing and measuring user behavior and interactions precisely. In particular, we developed a specification and partial implementation for a computer game to be used for (1) empirical evaluation of hypotheses concerning security-relevant social norms and user behavior and (2) for providing parameter values that we can incorporate in our computational model.