Server Controlled Mobile Agent

Agent Server Architecture for the Ajanta Mobile-Agent System

This paper provides an overview of Ajanta, a Java-based mobile-agent system, and focuses in particular on the architecture of the agent server { the process which hosts agents and enables them to access resources, communicate, migrate etc. The agent server's main components include an agent execution environment, an agent transfer protocol, a resource access protocol, and an agent monitoring se...

Concepts and Architecture of a Security-Centric Mobile Agent Server

Mobile software agents are software components that are able to move in a network. They are often considered as an attractive technology in electronic commerce applications. Although security concerns prevail. In this paper we describe the architecture and concepts of the SeMoA server – a runtime environment for Java-based mobile agents. Its architecture has a focus on security and easy extenda...

Mobile Agent Protection Mechanisms, and the Trusted Agent Proxy Server (TAPS) Architecture

Autonomous mobile agents have been purported as a promising new alternative to traditional distributed computing approaches, bringing many advantageous features. Notwithstanding this, mobile agent technology has yet to see wide deployment in open networks like the Internet. The lack of interoperability between agent systems has impaired such progress. Moreover, fears of security breaches by mal...

Agent Server: Semantic Agent for Linked Data

Qualified Mobile Server Signature

A legal basis for the use of electronic signatures exists since the introduction of qualified electronic signatures in EU Directive 1999/93/EC. Although considered as key enablers for e-Government and e-Commerce, qualified electronic signatures are still not widely used. Introducing a mobile component addresses most of the shortcomings of existing qualified signature approaches but poses certai...