There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

How to Do Things With Words

An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems.

Swarm intelligence is an emerging area in the field of optimization and researchers have developed various algorithms by modeling the behaviors of different swarm of animals and insects such as ants, termites, bees, birds, fishes. In 1990s, Ant Colony Optimization based on ant swarm and Particle Swarm Optimization based on bird flocks and fish schools have been introduced and they have been applied to solve optimization problems in various areas within a time of two decade. However, the intelligent behaviors of bee swarm have inspired the researchers especially during the last decade to develop new algorithms. This work presents a survey of the algorithms described based on the intelligence in bee swarms and their applications.

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A survey: algorithms simulating bee swarm intelligence

Microsoft has promoted ASP.NET’s new web services more than almost any other part of the.NET Framework. But despite their efforts, confusion is still widespread about what a web service is and, more importantly, what it’s meant to accomplish. This chapter introduces web services and explains their role in Microsoft’s vision of the programmable web. Along the way, you’ll learn about the open standards plumbing that allows web services to work and removes some of the confusion surrounding technical terms like WSDL (Web Service Description Language), SOAP, and UDDI (universal description, discovery, and integration).

Web Services Architecture

Semantic security against web application attacks

Ontology for attack detection: An intelligent approach to web application security

Cyber Civilization has become an important source of information sharing and professional activities like business, banking transactions, shopping, services and advertisement. With the exponentially increase in usage of cyberspace, cybercriminal actives are also increase exponentially. The basic reasons is that with the inception of world wide web, the web applications were also getting popularity for data storing and data sharing, irrespective of the user. With the passage of time web applications were getting more complex with rapid increase in their design faults, creating the surfing of internet totally unsafe. More than 90 percent web applications have some kind of design or development fault which can be easily exploited by the cyber criminals. These faults in web application can help criminals in getting the illegal access to trade secrets of any business. Sometime the web application may not be posing threat but the technology used in these applications become the root cause and put the application to the risk of illegal access. Presently the social networks, Internet connected mobile devices, individual privacy, and the online connectivity of entities such as banks are the most enticing targets for cyber criminals. In this survey we highlight the common cyber threats and detailed analysis of existing system and methodology used for its industrial solutions. Some important some industrial application also analyzed this paper.

Cyber security: Threats, reasons, challenges, methodologies and state of the art solutions for industrial applications

Web services framework has been evolved in context of convergence of Web and service oriented computing and then to Web services resource framework acting as basis for grid computing. It provides a loose coupled and implementation neutral infrastructure for distributed applications. On the other hand, multi agent systems has evolved as distributed system in context of autonomic computing having ultimate aim of self-managing systems to overcome their rapidly growing complexity and to enable their further growth. In this paper, we present our solution for dynamic and seamless integration of type the distributed systems. It would help in facilitating the requirements of next generation distributed applications requiring higher demands and complexity. The AgentWeb Gateway acts as middleware between both the technologies for dynamic integration and provides protocol transformations including service discovery, service description and service invocation.

AgentWeb Gateway - a middleware for dynamic integration of multi agent system and Web services framework

Multi-agent systems (MAS) advocate an agent-based approach to software engineering based on decomposing problems in terms of decentralized, autonomous agents that can engage in flexible, high-level interactions. This chapter introduces scalable fault tolerant agent grooming environment (SAGE), a second-generation Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA)-compliant multi-agent system developed at NIIT-Comtec, which provides an environment for creating distributed, intelligent, and autonomous entities that are encapsulated as agents. The chapter focuses on the highlight of SAGE, which is its decentralized fault-tolerant architecture that can be used to develop applications in a number of areas such as e-health, e-government, and e-science. In addition, SAGE architecture provides tools for runtime agent management, directory facilitation, monitoring, and editing messages exchange between agents. SAGE also provides a built-in mechanism to program agent behavior and their capabilities with the help of its autonomous agent architecture, which is the other major highlight of this chapter. The authors believe that the market for agent-based applications is growing rapidly, and SAGE can play a crucial role for future intelligent applications development. © 2007, IGI Global.

H. Farooq Ahmad

Papers

Semantic security against web application attacks

Ontology for attack detection: An intelligent approach to web application security

Cyber security: Threats, reasons, challenges, methodologies and state of the art solutions for industrial applications

AgentWeb Gateway - a middleware for dynamic integration of multi agent system and Web services framework

Scalable Fault Tolerant Agent Grooming Environment (SAGE)