Currently, most network management systems are centralized and therefore, they can not scale when the size or the complexity of the network increases. This paper aims to investigate mobile agent scalability in network management, in order to nd when mobile agents improve the management eeciency. We compare mobile agent performance with SNMP one in several simulations. Results show that the mobi...

Mobile agents are an increasingly popular paradigm and in recent years there has been a proliferation of mobile-agent systems. These systems are, however, largely incompatible with each other. In particular, agents cannot migrate to a host that runs a different mobile-agent system. Prior approaches to interoperability have tried to force agents to use a common API and so far none have succeeded...

The current trends and recent changes in logistics lead to new, complex and partially conflicting requirements for logistic planning and control systems. Due to the distributed nature of logistics the usage of agent technology is promising. Due to the mobile nature of logistics the usage of mobile agent technology is promising as well. Scenarios of usage of mobile agents in logistics are presen...

The speed and convenience of the Internet makes it advantageous to online applications. Basing on the elliptic curve cryptosystem, this study proposes a hierarchical mobile agent framework for handling key management and access control problems between mobile agent and host. It raises the security of key management, and also controls access to distributed environment in non-specific network. Th...

The paper deals with a generic model of a mobile agent network that includes multi-agent system, and a set of processing nodes connected by a communication network. A mobile agent network is described as a queuing system where mobile agents represent information units that must be served. Network flows related to agent hosting and migration and serving capabilities of processing nodes are propo...

A framework for building adaptive network protocols for agent migration over a network is presented. A key idea of the framework is to introduce mobile agents as first-class objects. That is, the framework allows network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and then dynamically deployed at network nodes by migrating the agents that carry the protocols. ...

This paper presents a simplified form of UML state diagrams for modeling agent mobility. Mobile agent has gained more importance technology. The notations used to model agent mobility are focused on capturing agent creation, mobility paths and current agent location. In this paper, we demonstrate how the simplification of the state UML 2.0 Activity Diagrams can be used for modeling mobile agent...

Mobile agent technology presents an attractive alternative to the client-server paradigm; however, the lack of a feasible agent security model seriously hinders the adoption of the agent paradigm. This paper describes a mobile agent platform, Secure Mobile Agent Platform (SECMAP) and its security infrastructure. SECMAP presents abstractions which ensure the protection of agents and system compo...

Many Mobile Agent Systems (MAS) have been developed, but with diverse proprietary Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This propagation of incompatible APIs implies the complexity of communication and interaction inter-platforms. In a heterogeneous network, an agent may also need to cooperate with agents developed for different platforms. Furthermore, a group of cooperating agents and the...

This paper presents the Agent pattern, a design pattern useful to develop dynamic and distributed applications. The Agent pattern provides a clean and easy way to develop agent-based applications, mainly in open and large-scale distributed environments such as the Internet and application areas such as Electronic Commerce. The Agent pattern encapsulates a business specific class (a specializati...