The mobile agent paradigm has been proposed as a promising solution to facilitate distributed computing over open and heterogeneous networks. Mobility, autonomy, and intelligence are identified as key features of mobile agent systems and enabling characteristics for the next-generation smart electronic commerce on the Internet. However, security-related issues, especially integrity protection i...

Mobile agents often have a task to collect data from several predefined sites. This should be done in an efficient way by minimising the elapsed time. Usually these agents only know the list of sites but not the distances between them. This paper proposes a method to minimise a network routing time taken by the mobile agents to collect information from different sites using genetic algorithm (G...

The provision of location tracking for mobile agents is designed to deliver a message to a moving object in a network. Most tracking methods exploit relay stations that hold location information to forward messages to a target mobile agent. In this paper, we propose an efficient location tracking method for mobile agents using the domain-based proxy as a relay station. The proxy in each domain ...

Wireless sensor networks efficient collection data with hundreds and thousands of sensor nodes is very complex task. Recently, mobile agents have been proposed for efficient data dissemination in sensor networks. In the traditional client/server-based computing architecture, data at multiple sources are transferred to a destination; whereas in the mobileagent based computing paradigm, a task sp...

Information systems are growing in size and complexity making it infeasible for human administrators to manage them. The aim of this work is to study ways of securing and using mobile software agents to deter attackers, protect information systems, detect intrusions, automatically respond to the intrusions and attacks, and to produce recovery services to systems after attacks. Current systems p...

This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the pro...

Agent mobility presents distinct challenges not handled by traditional, distributed, communication frameworks. By nature, mobile agents change location over time, making targeted messaging difficult to achieve. Also, a communication infrastructure must handle the case that the agent may be migrating when the message is sent. We have implemented a Distributed Event Messaging System (DEMS) that s...

In this paper, we present a consensus algorithm for synchronous distributed systems using cooperating mobile agents. The algorithm is designed within a framework for mobile agent enabled distributed server groups (MADSG), where cooperating mobile agents are used to achieve coordination among the servers. Being autonomous and cooperative, cooperating mobile agents exchange information among them...

Mobile agent technology is emerging as a new paradigm in the area of distributed and mobile computing. Mobile agents play an important role in the development of active and dynamically managed networks and distributed systems. Mobile agents are the intelligent programs that act autonomously on behalf of a user and can migrate from one host to another host in a network in order to satisfy the re...

Mobile agent technology is emerging as a new paradigm in the area of distributed and mobile computing. Mobile agents play an important role in the development of active and dynamically managed networks and distributed systems. Mobile agents are the intelligent programs that act autonomously on behalf of a user and can migrate from one host to another host in a network in order to satisfy the re...