@article{e5a47ff83c9c498ebe4391933e600e92,
title = "Lightweight agents for intrusion detection",
abstract = "We have designed and implemented an intrusion detection system (IDS) prototype based on mobile agents. Our agents travel between monitored systems in a network of distributed systems, obtain information from data cleaning agents, classify and correlate information, and report the information to a user interface and database via mediators. Agent systems with lightweight agent support allow runtime addition of new capabilities to agents. We describe the design of our Multi-agent IDS and show how lightweight agent capabilities allowed us to add communication and collaboration capabilities to the mobile agents in our IDS.",
author = "Guy Helmer and Wong, \{Johnny S K\} and Vasant Honavar and Les Miller and Yanxin Wang",
note = "Funding Information: Dr. Johnny S.K. Wong is a Full Professor of the Computer Science Department, Iowa State University at Ames, Iowa, USA. His research interests include Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Telecommunication Networks, Broadband-Integrated Services Digital networks, Concurrency Control and Recovery, Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems, Intelligent Multi-agents Systems, Intrusion Detection. He has been an investigator for research contracts with Telecom Australia from 1983 to 1986, studying the performance of network protocols of the ISDN. During this period, he has contributed to the study and evaluation of the communication architecture and protocols of ISDN. From 1989 to 1990, he was the Principal Investigator for a research contract with Microware Systems Corporation at Des Moines, Iowa. This involved the study of Coordinated Multimedia Communication in ISDN. In Summers 1991 and 1992, Dr. Wong was supported by IBM corporation in Rochester. While at IBM, he worked on the distributed computing environment (DCE) for the Application Systems. This involved the integration of communication protocols and distributed database concepts. Dr. Wong is also involved in the coordinated multimedia system (COMS) in Courseware Matrix Software Project, funded by NSF Synthesis Coalition Project to enhance engineering education. From 1993–1996, he is the working on a research project on a knowledge-based system for energy conservation education using multimedia communication technology, funded by the Iowa Energy Center. From 1995 to 1996, he was supported by the Ames Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DOE), working in Middleware for Multidatabases system. Funding Information: He was involved in projects on Intelligent Multi-agents for Intrusion Detection and Countermeasures funded the Department of Defense (DoD), database generating and X-ray displaying on the World Wide Web Applications funded by Mayo Foundation. Currently, he is working on the CISE Educational Innovation: Integrated Security Curricular Modules and NSF SFS Program on Information Assurance, both funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Funding Information: Dr. Vasant Honavar received a B.E. in Electronics Engg. from Bangalore University, India, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engg. from Drexel University, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He founded and directs the Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory ( www.cs.iastate.edu/\textasciitilde{}honavar/aigroup.html ) in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University (ISU) where he is currently an associate professor. Honavar is also a member of the Lawrence E. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, the Virtual Reality Application Center, and the faculty of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at ISU. His research and teaching interests include Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Grammatical Inference, Intelligent Agents and Multi-agent systems, Distributed Intelligent Information Networks, Intrusion Detection, Neural and Evolutionary Computing, Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery and Visualization, Knowledge Based Systems, and Applied Artificial Intelligence. He has published over 90 research articles in refereed journals, conferences and books, and has co-edited three books. He is a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cognitive Systems Research published by Elsevier. His research has been partially funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the US Department of Energy, the John Deere Foundation, the Carver Foundation, Pioneer Hi-Bred Inc., and IBM. Prof. Honavar is a member of ACM, AAAI, IEEE, and the New York Academy of Sciences. ",
year = "2003",
month = aug,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/S0164-1212(02)00092-4",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "67",
pages = "109--122",
journal = "Journal of Systems and Software",
issn = "0164-1212",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "2",
}