We evaluated the applicability of metal spray coating as a waterproofing/corrosion protection method for a concrete structure used for water purification. We carried out an ozone resistance test on four metal sprays and evaluated the water permeability and bond strength of the metals with superior ozone resistance, depending on the surface treatment method. In the ozone resistance test, four me...

Mobile agents are software which moves autonomously through a computer network with aim to perform some computation or gather information on behalf of its creator or an application. In the last several years, mobile agents have proved their numerous applications including e-commerce, telecommunication systems, information management, on-line auctions or service brokering. In most applications, ...

Rivaroxaban is a non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulant that acts as a direct factor Xa inhibitor, and is widely used for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disorders. As further knowledge gaps are identified in thrombosis management, the rivaroxaban research program has expanded in an attempt to elucidate the wider benefits of rivaroxaban. An increased understanding of the int...

This paper gives an overview of Ajanta, a Java-based system for mobile agent programming. We discuss the Ajanta architecture, and elaborate on the mechanisms used to provide object mobility, and secure execution of mobile agents in connned protection domains. The agent programming environment is deened, in terms of a set of primitive operations. A proxy-based ne-grained access control mechanism...

There is a growing need for the evaluation and certification of distributed systems regarding security standards. Almost all existing multi-agent systems that have been developed in the context of the telecommunications market neglect strong security evaluations. In particular, an evaluation of a multi-agent system based on the widely accepted and well known Common Criteria standard has not bee...

Mobile agents are software entities consisting of code and data that can migrate autonomously from host to host executing their code. Despite its benefits, security issues strongly restrict the use of code mobility. The protection of mobile agents against the attacks of malicious hosts is considered the most difficult security problem to solve in mobile agent systems. The approach that is prese...

An intrusion detection system has become a standard component of security infrastructure. Mobile agents transportable in network, gather information, evaluate and guide the alarm to network administrator. Advantage of having the mobile agent based approach in IDS that there is no centralized failure, less latency rate of data transmission and it has real time capability to generate the alarm ag...

Although macromolecular synthesis inhibitors have been demonstrated to prevent neuronal apoptosis in a number of paradigms, their mechanisms of protection remains unclear. Recently, we found that neuronal death resulting from cystine deprivation, glutathione loss, and oxidative stress is apoptotic and is prevented by inhibitors of macromolecular synthesis. We now report that protection is assoc...

This paper presents a protocol for the protection of mobile agents against external replay attacks. This kind of attacks are performed by malicious platforms when dispatching an agent multiple times to a remote host, thus making it reexecute part of its itinerary. Current proposals aiming to address this problem are based on storing agent identifiers, or trip markers, inside agent platforms, so...