Title: A secure and integrated ontology-based fusion using multi-agent system

Authors: Tarek Salah Sobh

Addresses: The Higher Institute of Computer and Information Technology, El Shorouk Academy, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract: This study aims to handle ontology-based fusion and use multi-agent systems to obtain information fusion from multiple sources/sensors in a secure and integrated manner. Therefore, our objective is to produce a secure and integrated ontology-based fusion framework by using multi-agent. The agent system gets different props from using ontologies such as interoperability, reusability, and support. Here, fusion levels vary from the signal level that is low to the high knowledge level. Securing a multi-agent platform was introduced through a security system called 'SMASP'. The performance results show that the framework is almost idle while the user is composing the query. The workload is low on CPU and memory. This framework receives multiple data sources through cloudlet. Ontologies support a secure multi-agent system with different operations such as reasoner agents and query agents. Using the cloudlet architecture gives the flexibility to overcome intensive computing and sensitivity to latency.

Keywords: information fusion; multiple data sources; integrated framework; ontology; reasoning; cloudlet; agent security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2024.139829

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2024 Vol.25 No.1, pp.48 - 73

Received: 18 Jan 2022
Accepted: 08 May 2022
Published online: 08 Jul 2024 *

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