Mobile agent technology offers a new computing paradigm in which a software agent can suspend its execution on a host computer, transfer itself to another agent-enabled host on the network, and resume execution on the new host. The use of mobile code has a long history dating back to the use of remote job entry systems in the 1960's. Today's agent incarnations can be characterized in a number o...

To realize its promise of providing scaleable and optimal use of network resources, mobile agent technology must be integrated with non-mobile architectures (e.g., client-server) while taking into account the specific needs of applications. This paper introduces a general characterization of mobile agent applications that provides a framework for reasoning about such optimization issues. This f...

1 The authors can be contacted at [email protected]. This work is funded by Broadcom Éireann Ltd. Abstract. Wireless communication with Mobile Computing devices is known to be problematic. It is very different in character from conventional communication over wired networks. Since many distributed applications make assumptions about network characteristics, they may not be used in a hostile ...

The Internet is continuously extending to mobile devices. This implies that applications should be tailored to make efficient use of the limited resources of such devices. Mobile agents are a promising solution for this purpose. However, secure protocols are required in order to assure confidentiality and integrity of the data such an agent collects. This paper describes 6 such security protoco...

Digital watermarking has emerged as an enabling technology for protecting intellectual property rights of digital information. However, the effectiveness of digital watermarking relies on the efficient detection of watermarks from huge amount of documents in cyberspace. Digital watermark agent provides an efficient solution. A digital watermark agent travels from host to host on a network and a...

The Talking Heads experiment currently being conducted at Sony CSL Paris implements a network of mobile cognitive agents. Each node of the network consists of a workstation with two digital cameras through which the agents can perceive the world. When installed on a node, agents construct classifications of what they ’see’ through the cameras and interact with each other to develop a simple lan...

​ Abstract Mobile agents represent a new model for network computing. Many different languages have been used to implement mobile agents. The characteristics that make a language useful for writing mobile agents are: (1) their support of agent migration, (2) their support for agent­to­agent communication, (3) how they allow agents to interact with local resources, (4) security mechanisms, (5) e...

Much work has been done in the area of Mobile Agents. However, the majority of this research has emphasized “mobile” and largely ignored “agent”. This paper attempts to rectify this through the presentation of research that combines the areas of Intentional Agents and Mobility, namely the construction of Mobile BDI Agents.

In this article we discuss an architecture for mobile agents. We focus on the components in the architecture that provide eecient, reliable, secure transportation of agents and ditto communication between agents and their environment. These components provide the basis for building a wide variety of agents with various levels of intelligence. We further discuss a prototype of the system, built ...

In distributed applications based on mobile agents, coordination and synchronization of the actions executed by a team of mobile agents are difficult tasks. The main difficulty comes from the fact that coordination requires the agents to interact with each other in spite of their dynamically changing locations. In this paper we present a mechanism for coordinating mobile agents which handles th...