Information Security Implications of Autonomous Systems

A key challenge within autonomous systems, which consist of autonomous entities (human or machine), is to automatically evaluate the relevance of information thus enabling individual entities to dynamically control access (classify) to any information they possess. This is particularly important when decentralized information sharing is required, ensuring that only authorized entities have access to potentially sensitive information. A high-level model for representing information relevance (and classification) based upon context-aware computing and role based access control concepts is described in this introductory paper, with potential future work detailed