Mobile Agent is an autonomously transportable code migrating itself from one node to another in a heterogeneous network without losing its operability. They have become commercially practicable with recent technologies and have the potential for revolutionizing distributed and network applications more recently in wireless sensor networks and bioinformatics. The main aim of this study is to mot...

This paper presents the experience of a university research group that has successfully deployed an application of its artificial intelligence research. It identifies some of the factors that have contributed to this success, and proposes a framework for future deployment activities that are consistent with the mission of a research university.

The increasing number of network security related incidents makes it necessary for organizations to actively protect their sensitive data with the installation of intrusion detection systems (IDS). Autonomous software agents, especially when equipped with mobility, promise an interesting design approach for such applications. We evaluate the implications of applying mobile agent technology to t...

Nowadays Information Systems (IS) are designed for individual task execution control allowing coordinating, monitoring, and supporting the logistical aspects of a business process, in other words, the IS has to manage the flow of work through the organization. The WorkFlow Management represents a critical issue for achieving enterprise competitiveness among organizations. Many companies have re...

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being i...

The goal of this paper is to provide some arguments in favor of the use of agent technology in real word applications. It does so through the, as much as possible, detailed description of a multi-agent system in the context of a real world application in the domain of ambient assisted living. It discusses development issues involving the use of the platform JADE and integrating computational ar...

Collaborating autonomous agents are becoming an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional hierarchical control architectures, offering better support for robustness, scalability, reconfigurability, and reusability, especially in systems where problem solving and decision making must be distributed. This is particularly true for the Virtual Factory [11] model of factory integration. In ...

In this paper, I will discuss some conceptual and technical similarities and differences between component models and agent technology. To this end, I will briefly introduce three component platforms and relate conceptual and technical aspects to the agent world with respect to the entities, interactions and problem solving capabilities that are characteristic for either technology. From this c...

Comprehensive approaches to knowledge management in modern enterprises are confronted with scenarios which are heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic by nature. Pro-active satisfaction of information needs across intra-organizational boundaries requires dynamic negotiation of shared understanding and adaptive handling of changing and ad-hoc task contexts. In this paper, we present the notion o...