Raytheon Bbn Technologies Corp.

Florida Institute of Technology

Thomas C Eskridge

Marco Mattos Carvalho

Michael Hassan Atighetchi

Brett Benyo

Fusun Yaman

James Lott

Paul J Feltovich

Maggie Breedy

Andrzej Uszok

Roger Carff

Jeffrey M Bradshaw

Larry Bunch

A system and method for deploying software agents in a policy-governed environment. The use of over-arching policies to control the actions and interactions of the software agents preserves desirable agent autonomy without allowing unwanted and potentially unpredictable (or at least difficult-to-predict) agent behavior. The system allows the agents to be deployed in a high-assurance environment.

Policy governed software agent system and method of operation

A decision engine includes: a genetic algorithm framework including a knowledge base of standard configurations, a candidate selector generator and a selector to select a candidate configuration from a plurality of preferred standard configurations in response to the candidate selector generator; a parallelized reasoning framework including an attack surface reasoning algorithm module to compute the security and cost tradeoffs of an attack surface associated with each candidate configuration; and a user interface framework including a web service engine where users can interact and provide feedback on direction of an evolution used in a genetic algorithm search for evolving defenses.

User interface supporting an integrated decision engine for evolving defenses

Multi-dimensional heuristic search as part of an integrated decision engine for evolving defenses

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Satellite Beach, FL, United States of America

Thomas C Eskridge