The term agent comes from greek ‘agein’, which means to drive or to lead. Today the term agent denotes something that produces or is capable of producing an effect. It can be a chemically, physically or biologically active principle. With this broad scope the term agent can be used for substances (rinsing agent) as well as for human beings (travel agent). With its connotation of driving or lead...

Mobile agent technology has been promoted as an emerging technology that makes it much easier to design, implement, and maintain distributed systems, including cloud computing and sensor networks. It does not provides an infrastructure for only executing autonomous agents but also migrating them between computers. This chapter discusses the potential uses of mobile agents in distributed systems...

With the increasing popularity of internet, and distributed heterogeneous network, there comes a new technology innovation that lead a system to be based on some form of mobile codes especially mobile agents. In this paper, the topic of mobile agents and some of the benefits and challenges of this new technology will be discussed.

This paper presents a framework for building network protocols for migrating mobile agents over a network. The framework allows network protocols for agent migration to be naturally implemented within mobile agents and to be constructed in a hierarchy as most data transmission protocols are. These protocols are given as mobile agents and they can transmit other mobile agents to remote hosts as ...

Mobile agents are programs that can move through a network under their own control mi grating from host to host and interacting with other agents and resources on each We argue that these mobile autonomous agents have the potential to provide a convenient e cient and robust programming paradigm for distributed applications particularly when partially connected com puters are involved Partially ...

The goal of this paper is to explore the emerging research issues in the nexus of mobile computing and organizational work.