The mobile agent-based computational steering (MACS) for distributed applications is presented in this article. In the MACS, a mobile agent platform, Mobile-C, is embedded in a program through the Mobile-C library to support C/C++ mobile agent code. Runtime replaceable algorithms of a program are represented as agent services in C/C++ source code and can be replaced with new ones through mobile...

Mobile agents are software program that can autonomously migrate from a platform to another platform to accomplish their tasks and it is believed that they will play an important role in future ecommerce system, offering higher flexibility and improved performance. In spite of those benefits from mobile agent system, security in mobile agent system is especially hard to achieve when a mobile ag...

Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) servers, such as RADIUS and DIAMETER, are in use within the Internet today to provide authentication and authorization services for dial-up computers. Mobile IP for IPv4 requires strong authentication between the mobile node and its home agent. When the mobile node shares an AAA Security Association with its home AAA server, however, it is pos...

Mobile agents are no longer a theoretical issue since different architectures for their realization have been proposed . With the increasing market of electronic commerce it becomes an interesting aspect to use autonomous mobile agents for electronic business transactions. Being involved in money transactions, supplementary security features for mobile agent systems have to he ensured. .In this...

A mobile agent system for organizing multiple mobile agents is presented. It provides two unique two mechanisms for dynamically organizing mobile agents, which may be running on single or multiple computers. The first enables a mobile agent to contain other mobile agents inside it and migrate to another mobile agent or computer with its inner agents. It provides an approach to composing large-s...