This paper discusses the agent based mobility management functionality developed by the ACTS-340MARINE project. MARINE’s mobility management procedures are based on mobile agent and distributed processing technology. The MARINE service, Broadband Video Telephony, is introduced as a scenario for the MARINE mobility management procedures. Three approaches for User Assistant agents to support user...

Mobility is an important feature of some software agents, allowing them to leave their host and continue task execution on another machine in the network. For the mobility to work, however, the network needs to be comprised of interoperable multi-agent systems. Currently, there exists a large number of multi-agent system solutions which, unfortunately, do not satisfy this requirement, due to st...

A mobile agent is a software code with mobility which can be move from a computer into another computers through network. The mobile agent paradigm provides many benefits in developments of distributed application at the same time introduce new requirements for security issues with these systems. In this article we present a solution for protection agent from other agents attacks with loging pa...

An increasing number of applications is being written for mobile hosts, such as laptop computers, mobile phones, PDAs etc. These applications are usually monolithic, featuring very limited interoperability and context-awareness and are usually difficult to deploy and update. Application engineers have to deal with a very dynamic set of environments that these applications are in contact with an...

An important characteristic of the mobile agents is their ability to hop autonomously from one machine to another in order to perform their tasks more efficiently. One design approach of the agent mobility facility is to equip the agents with an itinerary that specifies in a declarative fashion the navigation plan of the agent thus separating the navigation from the computation. Existing system...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insu cient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing tasks to others or agent migration to remote hosts. We propose agent cloning as a more comprehensive approach to the problem of local agent overloads. Agent cloning subsumes task transfer and agent mobil...

At present several Java-based multi-agent platforms from different developers are available, but none of them fully supports agent mobility and communication inaccessibility. They are thus no suitable for experiments with real-world simulation. In this paper we describe architecture of newly developed agent platform A-globe. It is fast and lightweight platform with agent mobility support. Besid...

In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an interagency mobility (migration) mechanism for agents. This migration is based on FIPA ACL messages. We also evaluate the performance of this implementation Agent mobility is an essential requirement for some electronic commerce applications, such as those in the Sea-of-Data (SOD) family. The majority of agent systems at present do n...