Machine Operating System Communication Facility Mobile Agent System ______________________________________________________________________________________ 15 ices to mobile agents. Services can be e.g. clients for database accesses, mail servers, or any other non-agent applications such as the Common Object Request Broker Architecture services (CORBA, [COR02]). They can consist of simple classe...

This article describes a decentralized secure migration process of mobile agents between Mobile-C agencies. Mobile-C is an IEEE Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) standard compliant multi-agent platform for supporting C/C++ mobile and stationary agents. Mobile-C is specially designed for mechatronic and factory automation systems where malicious agents may cause physical damage t...

The use of agent paradigm in today’s applications is hampered by the security concerns of agents and hosts alike. The agents require the presence of a secure and trusted execution environment; while hosts aim at preventing the execution of potentially malicious code. In general, hosts support the migration of agents through the provision of an agent server and managing the activities of arrivin...

Designing a secure and reliable mobile agent system is a difficult task. The agent operating system (AOS) is a building block that simplifies this task. AOS provides common primitives required by most mobile agent middleware systems, such as primitives for secure communication, secure and tamper-evident agent packaging and agent migration. Different middleware processes can use AOS at the same ...

A mobile agent is a software agent that has the ability to transfer its program code, data and execution state across a network to a remote computer for execution. In this paper, we present the design and development of a mobile agent based registration system (MARS) for subject registration in an academic environment. MARS is written in Java. Its mobile agent platform is provided by Aglets fro...

Over the last couple of years we have been working on the development of mobile agents systems and its application to the areas of telecommunications and network management. This work path produced positive results: a competitive mobile agent platform was built, the run-time benefits of mobile agents were proved, and our industrial partners have developed practical applications that are being i...

This thesis investigates security in multi-agent systems for mobile communication. Mobile as well as non-mobile agent technology is addressed. A general security analysis based on properties of agents and multi-agent systems is presented along with an overview of security measures applicable to multi-agent systems, and in particular to mobile agent systems. A security architecture, designed for...

A mobile agent is a software agent that has the ability to transfer its program code, data and execution state across a network to a remote computer for execution. In this paper, we present the design and development of a mobile agent based registration system (MARS) for subject registration in an academic environment. MARS is written in Java. Its mobile agent platform is provided by Aglets fro...

Networks are becoming much more complicated in their support of ubiquitous computing. For example, broadband mobile communications, wireless ad-hoc networks, IPv6, and so on. Technology is moving towards mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs), which create temporary networks. The use of mobile devices for composing MANETs is growing, and it is necessary to provide agent service for them. In this paper...

Applications in mobile multi-agent systems require a high degree of confidence that code that runs inside the system will not be malicious and that any agents which are malicious can be identified and contained. Since the inception of mobile agents, this threat has been addressed using a multitude of techniques, but many of these implementations have only addressed concerns from the position of...