Mobile Agents

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. aZIMAS: Web Mobile Agent System

   • Subramanian Arumugam, Abdelsalam Sumi Helal, Amar Nalla

   Pages 1-15

3. Mobile Code in .NET: A Porting Experience

   • Márcio Delamaro, Gian Pietro Picco

   Pages 16-31

4. Mobile Agents and Logic Programming

   • Hisashi Hayashi, Kenta Cho, Akihiko Ohsuga

   Pages 32-46

5. Empowering Mobile Software Agents

   • Volker Roth

   Pages 47-63

6. An Intrusion Detection System for Aglets

   • Giovanni Vigna, Bryan Cassell, Dave Fayram

   Pages 64-77

7. Fine-Grained Interlaced Code Loading for Mobile Systems

   • Luk Stoops, Tom Mens, Theo D’Hondt

   Pages 78-92

8. Improving Scalability of Replicated Services in Mobile Agent Systems

   • JinHo Ahn, Sung-Gi Min, ChongSun Hwang

   Pages 93-105

9. Toward Interoperability of Mobile-Agent Systems

   • Arne Grimstrup, Robert Gray, David Kotz, Maggie Breedy, Marco Carvalho, Thomas Cowin et al.

   Pages 106-120

10. Mobile Intermediaries Supporting Information Sharing between Mobile Users

    • Norliza Zaini, Luc Moreau

    Pages 121-137

11. A Mobile Agent Enabled Fully Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm

    • Jiannong Cao, Xianbing Wang, Jie Wu

    Pages 138-153

12. Using a Secure Mobile Object Kernel as Operating System on Embedded Devices to Support the Dynamic Upload of Applications

    • Walter Binder, Balázs Lichtl

    Pages 154-170

13. Supporting Flexible Data Feeds in Dynamic Sensor Grids through Mobile Agents

    • Marco Carvalho, Maggie Breedy

    Pages 171-185

14. Physical Mobility and Logical Mobility in Ubiquitous Computing Environments

    • Ichiro Satoh

    Pages 186-201

15. Back Matter

    Pages 203-203

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Welcome to the proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Agents. MA 2002 took place in Barcelona, Spain and was co-located with the 4th International Workshop on Mobile Agents for Telecommunications Applications. Both events were held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, October 22–25, 2002. Mobile agents may be de?ned as programs that, with varying degree of - tonomy, can move between hosts across a network. Mobile agents combine the notions of mobile code, mobile computation, and mobile state. Capabilities of mobile agents include: – Supporting unrealiable networks and disconnected operation – Counteracting low-bandwidth, high-latency communication links – Deploying newbehaviour (through mobile code) and recon?guring systems on-the-?y – Distributing processing load across systems – Improving survivability in the face of network and system failure. Given the above capabilities, mobile agents (while they may not be referred to as such) are nowbecoming accepted as a fundamental architectural construct for the design and development of complex adaptive systems that need to operate in highly dynamic environments. Mobile agents also support applications in several domains such as ubiquitous computing, grid computing, remote sensing, data mining, system management, and agile computing.

• Internet Agents
• Mobile Agents
• Mobile Code
• Mobile Computation
• Mobile Object Systems
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Network Management
• Scala
• Ubiquitous Computing
• agents
• operating system
• programming
• proving
• security
• software agent

• Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA

  Niranjan Suri

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