Engineering ultimate self-protection in autonomic agents for space exploration missions

Roy Sterritt, Mike Hinchey

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Abstract

NASA's Exploration Initiative (EI) will push space exploration missions to the limit. Future missions will be required to be self-managing as well as self-directed, in order to meet the challenges of human and robotic space exploration. We discuss security and selfprotection in autonomic agent based-systems, and propose the ultimate self-protection mechanism for such systems-self-destruction. Like other metaphors in Autonomic Computing, this is inspired by biological systems, and is the analog of biological apoptosts. Finally, we discuss the role it might play in future NASA space exploration missions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECS 2005
EditorsJ. Rozenblit, T. O'Neill, J. Peng
Pages506-511
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECS 2005 - Greenbelt, MD, United States
Duration: 4 Apr 20057 Apr 2005

Publication series

NameProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECS 2005

Conference

ConferenceProceedings - 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshops on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, ECS 2005
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGreenbelt, MD
Period4/04/057/04/05

Keywords

  • Apoptosis
  • Autonomic Agents
  • Autonomic Computing
  • Exploration
  • Pulse Monitoring
  • Self-Destruction
  • Self-Protection

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