Agent technology is emerging as a powerful approach for the development of complex system. Mobile agent is a program that can migrate as a whole around network and can communicate with its environment and other agent. Among application for mobile agent: manufacturing, electronic commerce, network management, health care, and entertainment. In this paper we present the design and implementation ...

The related techniques and applications on e-commerce have been concerned by a great number of researchers. The use of a mobile agent, in particular, is an important breakthrough on the e-commerce applications. With the abilities of higher autonomy and mobility, a mobile agent can move freely among different execution environments, can automatically detect its resided environment, and can react...

Mobile agent technology has gained increasing importance in recent years. However, little work has been done in defining notations/languages to capture and model mobile agent applications. This paper presents extensions of UML activity diagrams for modelling mobile agent applications, which capture specific features of mobile agents such as mobility, cloning and communications.

An approach for building application-specific protocols for migrating mobile agents over a network is presented. The approach has two key ideas. One is to introduce mobile agents as first-class objects. The other is to build and deploy network protocols for agent migration as mobile agents, which allows network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and t...

Mobile agents offer a new possibility for the development of applications in distributed systems and are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their implementations have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it becomes an interesting aspect to use autonomous mobile agents for electronic business transactions. Being involved in money transacti...

This paper aims to investigate mobile agent tradeoos in network management by performing management task simulations. The mobile agent performs better than the SNMP when the number of managed network elements ranges between two limits: an inferior bound, associated with the number of messages that traverse backbone links, and a superior bound, related to the incremental size of the mobile agent...

This paper presents a possible roadmap for what we call a “Sweeper-Agent”: an environment-friendly agents-based mobile technique, which is carried out within the activities of BlueAgents, a newly-formed research project focusing on the integration of mobile Bluetooth communications and Agent-based applications. We foresee an architecture of a service management technique that would increase the...

Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their realization have been proposed. With the increasing market of electronic commerce it becomes an interesting aspect to use autonomous mobile agents for electronic business transactions. Being involved in money transactions, supplementary security features for mobile agent systems have to be ensured. In this p...