doi: 10.4304/jsw.2.1.60-69
Towards Secure e-Learning Applications: a Multiagent Platform
- University of Caxias do Sul/Computer Science Department, Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Abstract
This paper presents some results in theintersection of three technological fields: e-learning,multiagent systems, and standards to improve thedevelopment of secure systems. There is a consensus thatsecurity is a critical issue for distributed, highly interactiveand open learning environments. While a lot of effort in thee-learning domain has been put into deliveringinfrastructure and providing content, security issues havehardly ever been considered. Agent-oriented methodologiesmay bring benefits to the conception of multiagent systems,since they gradually are incorporating specifications forgeneral security mechanisms (FIPA standards). Concerningthe specification of security requirements for e-learningenvironments, extended formalisms (such as security usecases) appear as proper modeling tools. The topics coveredby this paper converge to the implementation of amultiagent platform (the PMA3), which constitutes an opendistributed infrastructure addressing important securityissues. PMA3 has been used in the development of elearningenvironments. The paper concludes with anoutlook to ongoing research efforts related to securityrequirements for e-learning applications.
Keywords
- security requirements
- multiagent system
How to Cite
Carine G. Webber, Maria de Fátima W.P.Lima, Marcos E.Casa, and Alexandre M.Ribeiro, "Towards Secure e-Learning Applications: a Multiagent Platform," Journal of Software, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 60-69, 2007. https://doi.org/ 10.4304/jsw.2.1.60-69
Copyright & License
Copyright © 2007 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).