There are beginning to be a lot of agents executing on the web, and some of them are starting to move around. While most agents are static, in that they exist as a single process or thread on one host computer, others can pick up and move their code and data to a new host in the web, where they then resume executing. or RPC'd? These are some of the questions swirling around web discussion group...

This paper gives an overview of the French collaborative project SAMU1, Advanced Services by Mastering UMTS, dedicated to develop enhanced services for users in a car. For that purpose, complementary research domains have been investigated such as radio resource management, IP over UMTS and the use of software agents. While field trials were planned in the project to validate the outputs of the...

Recent work has shown that several cryptographic protocols for the protection of free-roaming mobile agents are vulnerable by means of protocol interleaving attacks. This paper presents equivalent protocols meant to be robust against this type of attack. Moreover, it describes the required processes and data structures at a level of detail that can be translated to an implementation in a straig...

Agent oriented software implies the realization of software components which are mobile autonomous and solve problems by creating new software compo nents during run time moving between locations ini tiating or joining groups of other software components Modeling and simulating those multiagent systems re quires speci c mechanisms for variable structure mod eling JAMES a Java Based Agent Modeli...