Understanding Effects of Norms and Policies on the Robustness, Liveness, and Resilience of Systems - January 2017

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, 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.

PUBLICATIONS

ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• We developed a multiagent decision model for the adoption of security practices in software development that captures the main participants, their costs and payoffs for various actions, and their assessment of functionality and security, and their sanctioning of each other. We developed a multiagent simulation framework to computationally realize that model and to support investigations on it of hypotheses concerning observed security practices and relevant control variables.