Dr. Jeffrey M. Bradshaw is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) where he leads the research group developing the KAoS policy and domain services framework.

Formerly, he led research groups at The Boeing Company and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France; an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; a visiting professor at the Institut Cognitique at the University of Bordeaux; is former chair of ACM SIGART; and former chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA. He served as a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Emergent Physiological and Cognitive/Neural Science Research and as a scientific advisor to the Japanese NEC Technology Paradigm Shifts initiative.

He currently serves as an advisor to the HCIV program at the German National AI Research Center (DFKI), and an external advisory board member of the Cognitive Science and Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. Recently, he served as co-program chair for Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008) and as Program Vice Chair, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems (DHMS 2008). He is co-chair for the 2009 Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop.

Dr. Bradshaw serves on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and is a member of the Parametric Human Consortium. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the Web Semantics Journal, Schedae Informaticae, and the Web Intelligence Journal. Among hundreds of other publications, he edited the books Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity (with Ken Ford, Wiley, 1993), Software Agents (AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1997).

Presentation

Order through KAoS: Simplifying Support for Identification and Access Control

New applications, collaborations, and computing models are increasingly straining the capability to securely manage the identities involved and their respective credentials, rights, and obligations. The key to this is securely linking a principal's identity to a set of allowed or required actions and implementing this relationship with a standards-based policy language that is expressive enough to deal with both high-level and low-level concerns. Jeff will describe a practical structure for standardizing policy-based control that takes into account both access control requirements and obligations.

After describing the architecture, he will illustrate it with several real-world examples ranging from controlling clusters of robots to quality-of-service applications to creating networks resistant to denial-of-service attacks.

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