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Mobile Agents

5th International Conference, MA 2001 Atlanta, GA, USA, December 2-4, 2001 Proceedings

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Gian Pietro Picco

    1. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2240)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Security

    1. On the Robustness of Some Cryptographic Protocols for Mobile Agent Protection

      • Volker Roth
      Pages 1-14

    2. Trust Relationships in a Mobile Agent System

      • Hock Kim Tan, Luc Moreau
      Pages 15-30

    3. Evaluating the Security of Three Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems

      • Sebastian Fischmeister, Giovanni Vigna, Richard A. Kemmerer
      Pages 31-41

  3. Models and Architectures

    1. Formal Specification and Verification of Mobile Agent Data Integrity Properties: A Case Study

      • Xavier Hannotin, Paolo Maggi, Riccardo Sisto
      Pages 42-53

    2. Lime Revisited

      • Bogdan Carbunar, Marco Tulio Valente, Jan Vitek
      Pages 54-69

    3. Dynamic Adaptation of Mobile Agents in Heterogenous Environments

      • Raimund Brandt, Helmut Reiser
      Pages 70-87

  4. Applications

    1. Fast File Access for Fast Agents

      • Eugene Gendelman, Lubomir F. Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt
      Pages 88-102

    2. Flying Emulator: Rapid Building and Testing of Networked Applications for Mobile Computers

      • Ichiro Satoh
      Pages 103-118

    3. Crawlets: Agents for High Performance Web Search Engines

      • Prasannaa Thati, Po-Hao Chang, Gul Agha
      Pages 119-134

  6. Run-Time Support

    1. Translating Strong Mobility into Weak Mobility

      • Lorenzo Bettini, Rocco De Nicola
      Pages 182-197

    2. Transparent Migration of Mobile Agents Using the Java Platform Debugger Architecture

      • Torsten Illmann, Tilman Krueger, Frank Kargl, Michael Weber
      Pages 198-212

    3. Portable Resource Reification in Java-Based Mobile Agent Systems

      • Alex Villazón, Walter Binder
      Pages 213-228

  7. Quantitative Evaluation and Benchmarking

    1. Mobile-Agent versus Client/Server Performance: Scalability in an Information-Retrieval Task

      • Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, Ronald A. Peterson, Joyce Barton, Daria Chacón, Peter Gerken et al.
      Pages 229-243

    2. Performance Evaluation of Mobile-Agent Middleware: A Hierarchical Approach

      • Marios Dikaiakos, Melinos Kyriakou, George Samaras
      Pages 244-259

    3. Scheduling Multi-task Agents

      • Rong Xie, Daniela Rus, Cliff Stein
      Pages 260-275

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 277-277
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Recent years have witnessed the appearance of new paradigms for designing distributed applications where the application components can be relocated - namically across the hosts of the network. This form of code mobility lays the foundation for a new generation of technologies, architectures, models, and - plications in which the location at which the code is executed comes under the control of the designer, rather than simply being a con?guration accident. Among the various ?avors of mobile code, the mobile agent paradigm has become particularly popular. Mobile agents are programs able to determine - tonomously their own migration to a di?erent host, and still retain their code and state (or at least a portion thereof). Thus, distributed computations do not necessarily unfold as a sequence of requests and replies between clients and - mote servers, rather they encompass one or more visits of one or more mobile agents to the nodes involved. Mobile code and mobile agents hold the potential to shape the next gene- tion of technologies and models for distributed computation. The ?rst steps of this process are already evident today: Web applets provide a case for the least sophisticated form of mobile code, Java-based distributed middleware makes - creasing use of mobile code, and the ?rst commercial applications using mobile agents are starting to appear.

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  • Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Gian Pietro Picco

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