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195 Mobile Ambients - Cardelli, Gordon (1998)(Correct)
We introduce a calculus describing the movement of processes and devices,
including movement through administrative domains.
1 Introduction
There are two distinct areas of work in mobility: mobile co... / framework that encompasses mobile agents the ambients where agents br D. Rmy A calculus of mobile agents. Proc. th International
163 A Calculus of Mobile Agents - Fournet, Gonthier, Lévy, Maranget.. (1996)(Correct)
We introduce a calculus for mobile agents and give its chemical semantics, with a precise definition for migration, failure, and failure detection. Various examples written in our calculus illustrat... / A Calculus of Mobile Agents C'edric Fournet Georges br We introduce a calculus for mobile agents and give its chemical
98 Agent Tcl: A flexible and secure mobile-agent system - Gray (1996)(Correct)
An information agent manages all or a portion of a user's information space. The electronic resources in this space are often distributed across a network and can contain tremendous quantities of data... / Agent Tcl A flexible and secure mobile-agent system Robert S. Gray br tremendous quantities of data. Mobile agents provide efficient access to
73 Itinerant Agents for Mobile Computing - Chess, Grosof, Harrison, Levine.. (1995)(Correct)
This paper describes an abstract framework for itinerant agents that can be used to implement secure, remote applications in large, public networks such as the Internet or the IBM Global Network. Itin... / electronic commerce by means of mobile agents The HotJava web browser br and other services to the mobile agents. The framework places certain
67 The Architecture of the Ara Platform for Mobile Agents - Peine, Stolpmann (1997)(Correct)
We describe a platform for the portable and secure execution of mobile agents written in various interpreted languages on top of a common run-time core. Agents may migrate at any point in their execut... / of the Ara Platform for Mobile Agents Holger Peine and Torsten br portable and secure execution of mobile agents written in various
66 Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Hosts - Sander, Tschudin (1997)(Correct)
A key element of any mobile code based distributed system are the
security mechanisms available to protect (a) the host against potentially hostile
actions of a code fragment under execution and (... / to the forthcoming LNCS on Mobile Agent Security November br November Protecting Mobile Agents Against Malicious Hosts
52 Intelligent Agents: An Emerging Technology for Next Generation.. - Magedanz, Rothermel, Krause (1996)(Correct)
The telecommunications environment is changing its face towards an open market of information services where the vision is "information any time, at any place, in any form". Within this electronic mar... / basic properties. Focusing on mobile agents which could be considered as br Intelligent Communications Mobile Agents Mobile Service Clients
49 Resource Access Control in Systems of Mobile Agents - Hennessy (1998)(Correct)
We describe a typing system for a distributed p-calculus which guarantees that distributed agents cannot access the resources of a system without first being granted the capability to do so. The lan... / Access Control in Systems of Mobile Agents Matthew Hennessy and James br Access Control In Systems Of Mobile Agents Matthew Hennessy And
45 Types for Mobile Ambients - Cardelli, Gordon (1998)(Correct)
Java has demonstrated the utility of type systems for mobile code, and in particular
their use and implications for security. Security properties rest on the
fact that a well-typed Java program (or th... / we obtain a type system for mobile agents and other mobile computations. br . White J.E.Mobile agents. In Software Agents J.
43 Mobile Agents for Network Management - Bieszczad, Pagurek, White (1998)(Correct)
In this paper, we discuss the potential uses of mobile agents in Network Management. We
define software agents and a navigation model, which determines agent mobility. We list a
number of potential ad... / Mobile Agents for Network Management br we discuss the potential uses of mobile agents in Network Management. We
43 Programming languages for mobile code - Thorn (1997)(Correct)
Sun's announcement of the programming language Java more than anything popularized the notion of mobile code, that is, programs travelling on a heterogeneous network and automatically executes upon ... / document Rou b ffl Mobile agents are code-containing objects br receiver of the code. Mobile agents Obliq and Telescript are
42 Ant-based load balancing in telecommunications networks - Schoonderwoerd, Holland, Bruten.. (1996)(Correct)
This paper describes a novel method of achieving load balancing in telecommunications networks. A simulated network models a typical distribution of calls between nodes; nodes carrying an excess of tr... / supports a population of simple mobile agents with behaviours modelled on br algorithmically-based type of mobile agent previously proposed for use in
42 The Open Agent Architecture: A Framework for Building Distributed.. - Martin, Cheyer, Moran (1999)(Correct)
The Open Agent Architecture (OAA), developed and used for several years at SRI International, makes it possible for software services to be provided through the cooperative efforts of distributed coll... / Mobile objects sometimes called mobile agents are bits of code that can br program. ffl Parallelism mobile agents can be spawned in parallel to
41 Mobile Agent Security and Telescript - Tardo, Valente (1996)(Correct)
Telescript is a software technology for building distributed
applications using the mobile agent paradigm. Telescript
mobile agents are migrating processes capable of
being executed on any Telescript ... / Mobile Agent Security and Telescript br applications using the mobile agent paradigm. Telescript mobile
40 Mole - Concepts of a Mobile Agent System - Baumann, Hohl, Rothermel, Straßer (1997)(Correct)
Due to its salient properties, mobile agent technology has received a rapidly growing attention over the last few years. Many developments of mobile agent systems are under way in both academic and in... / Mole -Concepts of a Mobile Agent System J. Baumann F. Hohl br Mole -Concepts of a Mobile Agent System Authors
38 Exploiting Code Mobility in Decentralized and Flexible Network.. - Baldi, Gai, Picco(Correct)
Network management is gaining increasing importance due
to the pervasiveness of computer networks. Nevertheless, mainstream
approaches to network management are presently limited by centralized
mana... / Keywords code mobility mobile agents network management. br State of the component c Mobile Agent. Fig. . Mobile code design
37 The Safe-Tcl Security Model - Ousterhout, Levy, Welch (1997)(Correct)
Safe-Tcl is a mechanism for controlling the execution of programs written in the Tcl
scripting language. It allows untrusted scripts (applets) to be executed while preventing
damage to the environment... /
34 Mobile Agents: Are they a good idea? - Harrison, Chess, Kershenbaum (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs, typically written in a script language, which may be dispatched from a client computer and transported to a remote server computer for execution. Several authors have sug... / Research Report Mobile Agents Are they a good idea br .Tokyo Zurich ii Mobile Agents Are they a good idea
32 Mobile Agents White Paper - White (1996)(Correct)
this paper.
Introduction
New products
New applications
New networks
About "Mobile Agents"
Enabling mobile agents
Mobile agent paradigm
Mobile agent concepts
Mobile agent technology
Programming mobile ... / of General Magic's original mobile agent system Telescript Please br New networks About Mobile Agents Enabling mobile agents
31 LIME: Linda Meets Mobility - Picco, Murphy, Roman (1999)(Correct)
Lime is a system designed to assist in the rapid development of dependable mobile applications over both wired and ad hoc networks. Mobile agents reside on mobile hosts and all communication takes pla... / both wired and ad hoc networks. Mobile agents reside on mobile hosts and br with the movement of mobile agents i.e.processes that are able
31 A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents - Yee (1997)(Correct)
ly, this is a circuit of the (complete) graph connecting the airline servers, and the originator may chose this circuit at the time of agent dispatch. At any honest server, the agent code and its read... / A Sanctuary for Mobile Agents Bennet S. Yee February br a secure infrastructure for mobile agents and examining the
30 An HTTP-based Infrastructure for Mobile Agents - Lingnau, Drobnik, Dömel (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are an emerging technology attracting interest from the fields of distributed systems, information retrieval, electronic commerce and artificial intelligence. We present an infrastruct... / HTTP-based Infrastructure for Mobile Agents Anselm Lingnau Oswald br Drobnik Peter Dmel Abstract Mobile agents are an emerging technology
30 Towards Mobile Cryptography - Sander, Tschudin (1998)(Correct)
Mobile code technology has become a driving force for recent advances in distributed
systems. The concept of mobility of executable code raises major security problems.
In this paper we deal with the ... / WEB browser active content Mobile agent systems allow programs to br attack the difficult problem of mobile agents who want to remotely sign
30 A Meta-Model for the Analysis and Design of Organizations in.. - Ferber, Gutknecht (1998)(Correct)
This paper presents a generic meta-model of multi-agent
systems based on organizational concepts such as groups,
roles and structures. This model, called AALAADIN, defines
a very simple description of... / Search Bot KQML agents group Mobile agents group Contract-net group br is part of a group gathering mobile agents and simultaneously of the
30 Security for Mobile Agents: Authentication and State Appraisal - Farmer, Guttmann, Swarup (1996)(Correct)
Mobile agents are processes which can autonomously migrate
to new hosts. Despite its many practical bene ts, mobile agent technology
results in signi cant new security threats from malicious agent... / Security for Mobile Agents Authentication and State br swarupg mitre.org Abstract. Mobile agents are processes which can
28 Trust and Partial Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents - Riely, Hennessy (1998)(Correct)
We present a partially-typed semantics for Dp, a distributed p-calculus. The semantics
is designed for mobile agents in open distributed systems in which some sites may harbor
malicious intentions. ... / Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents James Riely and Matthew br Typing In Open Systems Of Mobile Agents James Riely And
28 Trust and Partial Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents (Extended.. - Riely, Hennessy (1999)(Correct)
We present a partially-typed semantics for Dp, a distributed p-calculus. The semantics is designed for mobile agents in open distributed systems in which some sites may harbor malicious intentions. No... / Typing in Open Systems of Mobile Agents Extended Abstract James br The semantics is designed for mobile agents in open distributed systems
27 Mobile agents for mobile computing - Gray, Kotz, Nog, Rus, Cybenko (1996)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs that can move through a network under their own control, migrating from host to host and interacting with other agents and resources on each. We argue that these mobile, aut... / Mobile agents for mobile computing Robert br May Abstract Mobile agents are programs that can move
27 Time Limited Blackbox Security: Protecting Mobile Agents From.. - Hohl (1998)(Correct)
In this paper, an approach to partially solve one of the most difficult aspects of security of mobile agents systems is presented, the problem of malicious hosts. This problem consists in the possib... / Blackbox Security Protecting Mobile Agents From Malicious Hosts br Introduction Mobile agent systems are expected to become
26 Java Operating Systems: Design and Implementation - Back, Tullmann, Stoller, Hsieh.. (1998)(Correct)
Language-based extensible systems such as Java use
type safety to provide memory safety in a single address
space. Memory safety alone, however, is not sufficient to
protect different applications fro... / servlets in servers and mobile agents. All of these environments br Ismail. A protection scheme for mobile agents on Java. In Proc. of the
26 Language Support for Mobile Agents - Knabe (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents are code-containing objects that may be transmitted between communicating
participants in a distributed system. As opposed to systems that only
allow the exchange of nonexecutable data, ... / Language Support for Mobile Agents Frederick Colville Knabe br student contract. Keywords mobile agents functional languages
25 Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems - Karnik, Tripathi (1998)(Correct)
We describe the mobile agent paradigm which is becoming increasingly popular for network-centric
programming, and compare it with earlier paradigms for distributed computing from which it has evolved.... / Design Issues in Mobile Agent Programming Systems br Abstract We describe the mobile agent paradigm which is becoming
24 Seal: A Framework for Secure Mobile Computations - Vitek, Castagna (1999)(Correct)
The Seal calculus is a distributed process calculus with localities
and mobility of computational entities called seals. Seal is also
a framework for writing secure distributed applications over l... / also referred to as mobile agents. We present a low level br if the goal is to prevent the mobile agent from carrying out its task In
23 Transportable Information Agents - Rus (1996)(Correct)
Transportable agents are autonomous programs. They can move through a heterogeneous network of computers under their own control, migrating from host to host. They can sense the state of the network, ... / system infrastructure for using mobile agents with mobile computing is br policies for resource control. Mobile agents provide a simple adaptive
23 Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Part Of (1997)(Correct)
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209, 304, 206, 205, 85, 204, 83, 187, 1909,
1534, 1177].
Abstraction [716, 1011, 1767, 1782].
Abstractions [157]. AC [1255].
AC-Unification [1255].
Accelerated [10... / S. Covaci and T. Magedanz. The mobile agent technology. Lecture Notes in
23 Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing - Vigna (1997)(Correct)
Mobile code systems provide a flexible and powerful platform to build distributed applications in an Internet scale, but they rise strong requirements from the security point of view. Security issues ... / Protecting Mobile Agents through Tracing Giovanni br code. Keywords mobile code mobile agents security auditing.
22 Coordinating Multiagent Applications on the WWW: A Reference.. - Ciancarini, Tolksdorf, Vitali.. (1998)(Correct)
The original Web did not support multiuser, interactive applications. This shortcoming is being studied, and several
approaches have been proposed to use the Web as a platform for programming Internet... / to support fault-tolerance and mobile agents as well. Index br design coordination languages mobile agents and compression algorithms
22 An XML Framework for Agent-based E-commerce - Glushko, Tenenbaum, Meltzer (1999)(Correct)
This document-based
approach replaces complex, expensive, and proprietary
business integration solutions with one that is
simple, affordable, and open. unknown an xml framework
for
Agent-based
E-co... / see Wong et al.s Java-based Mobile Agents in this issue In time most
22 An Introduction to Software Agents - Bradshaw (1997)(Correct)
ion and delegation: Agents can be made extensible and composable in ways that common iconic interface objects cannot. Because we can "communicate" with them, they can share our goals, rather than simp... / agents interface agents mobile agents information Internet br be a less confusing term than mobile agent for those Java applets whose
21 Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents - Bredin, Kotz, Rus (1998)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs that can migrate from machine to machine in a heterogeneous, partially disconnected network. As mobile agents move across a network, they consume resources. We discuss a sys... / Resource Control for Mobile Agents Jonathan Bredin David br November Abstract Mobile agents are programs that can migrate
21 Sensory-motor coordination: the metaphor and beyond - Pfeifer, Scheier(Correct)
Any agent in the real world has to be able to make distinctions between different types of objects, i.e. it
must have the competence of categorization. In mobile agents, there is a large variation in ... / competence of categorization. In mobile agents there is a large variation in br not be employed for our mobile agents because mobile agents are
21 Interaction and Intelligent Behavior - Mataric (1994)(Correct)
This thesis addresses situated, embodied agents interacting in complex domains. It
focuses on two problems: 1) synthesis and analysis of intelligent group behavior, and
2) learning in complex group en... / behaviors for a collection of mobile agents interacting in the plane. The br for the domain of planar mobile agents. . . Basic Behaviors for
20 The Saphira Architecture: A Design for Autonomy - Konolige, Myers, Ruspini, Saffiotti (1997)(Correct)
Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (JETAI) 9, 1997, 215-235.
Special issue on Architectures for Physical Agents.
Mobile robots, if they areto perform useful tasks andbecom... / International. Autonomous Mobile Agents What are the minimal br capabilities for an autonomous mobile agent Posed in this way the
20 AntNet: Distributed Stigmergetic Control for Communications Networks - Di Caro, Dorigo (1998)(Correct)
This paper introduces AntNet, a novel approach to the adaptive learning of routing tables in communications networks. AntNet is a distributed, mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that was inspired ... / AntNet is a distributed mobile agents based Monte Carlo system that br we propose in this paper is a mobileagent based online Monte Carlo
20 Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents - Kendall, Krishna, Pathak, Suresh (1998)(Correct)
Agent systems must have a strong foundation; one approach that has been successfully applied to other kinds of software is patterns. This paper presents a collection of patterns for agents. 2. MOTIVAT... / Patterns of Intelligent and Mobile Agents Elizabeth A.Kendall P.V. br methodology for intelligent and mobile agents. . CONTEXT An agent
19 A Perspective on Software Agents Research - Nwana, Nduma (1999)(Correct)
This paper sets out, ambitiously, to present a brief reappraisal of software agents research. Evidently, software
agent technology has promised much. However some five years after the word `agent' ca... / in this paper also subsumes mobile agents. Section spells out some br largely because the benefits of mobile agents are largely non-functional
19 Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents - Vigna (1998)(Correct)
Mobile code systems are technologies that allow applications
to move their code, and possibly the corresponding state, among the
nodes of a wide-area network. Code mobility is a flexible and power... / Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents Giovanni Vigna Dip. br Cryptographic Traces for Mobile Agents Presently solutions to
19 Dynamic Distance Maps of the Internet - Theilmann, Rothermel (1999)(Correct)
There is an increasing number of Internet applications that attempt to optimize their network communication by considering the network distance across which data is transferred. Such applications rang... / from replication management to mobile agent applications. One major br level Finally in mobile agent systems the distance between
18 Type-Safe Execution of Mobile Agents in Anonymous Networks - Hennessy, Riely (1998)(Correct)
We present a partially-typed semantics for Dp, a distributed p-calculus. The semantics is designed for open distributed systems in which some sites may harbor malicious agents. Nonetheless, the sema... / SCIENCE Type-Safe Execution of Mobile Agents in Anonymous Networks br Type-Safe Execution of Mobile Agents in Anonymous Networks
18 Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior - Mataric (1995)(Correct)
This paper proposes the concept of basis behaviors as ubiquitous general building blocks
for synthesizing artificial group behavior in multi--agent systems, and for analyzing group
behavior in nature.... / and tasks for a group of mobile agents. locally. It can also serve
18 KLAIM: a Kernel Language for Agents Interaction and Mobility - De Nicola, Ferrari, Pugliese (1997)(Correct)
We investigate the issue of designing a kernel programming language for Mobile Computing and describe Klaim, a language that supports a programming paradigm where processes, like data, can be moved fr... / access rights violations of mobile agents. Types are used to describe br that enable sites receiving mobile agents for execution to set demands
17 Mobile Code Paradigms and Technologies: A Case Study - Ghezzi, Vigna (1997)(Correct)
The opportunities offered by the Internet are encouraging
research aimed at the creation of a computational infrastructure that
exploits the wide spread communication infrastructure. The mobile comp... / Code on Demand COD and Mobile Agent MA Although we don't br processor know-how mobile agent know-how processor
17 Nested Java Processes: OS Structure for Mobile Code - Tullmann, Lepreau (1998)(Correct)
The majority of work on protection in single-language
mobile code environments focuses on information security
issues and depends on the language environment for
solutions to the problems of resource ... / to authenticate and manage the mobile agents in such a system is required.
17 Reactive Tuple Spaces for Mobile Agent Coordination - Cabri, Leonardi, Zambonelli (1998)(Correct)
Mobile active computational entities introduce peculiar problems in the
coordination of distributed application components. The paper surveys several
coordination models for mobile agent applications ... / Reactive Tuple Spaces for Mobile Agent Coordination Giacomo Cabri br several coordination models for mobile agent applications and outlines the
17 Hive: Distributed Agents for Networking Things - Minar, Gray, Roup, Krikorian, Maes (1999)(Correct)
Hive is a distributed agents platform, a decentralized system for building applications by networking local system resources. This paper presents the architecture of Hive, concentrating on the idea of... / of agent capabilities mobile agents and a graphical interface to br Agents can be mobile mobile agents provide a simple abstraction
16 Language Issues in Mobile Program Security - Volpano, Smith (1998)(Correct)
Many programming languages have been developed and implemented
for mobile code environments. They are typically quite expressive.
But while security is an important aspect of any mobile code
technol... / in a special issue of LNCS on Mobile Agents and Security. One can br Meadows. Detecting attacks on mobile agents. In Proc. Foundations
16 Towards Multi-Swarm Problem Solving in Networks - White, Pagurek (1998)(Correct)
This paper describes how multiple interacting swarms of
adaptive mobile agents can be used to solve problems in
networks. The paper introduces a new architectural
description for an agent that is chem... / interacting swarms of adaptive mobile agents can be used to solve problems br Architecture in the domain of mobile agents. The paper presents
16 Open Resource Allocation for Mobile Code - Tschudin (1997)(Correct)
Mobile codetechnology leads to a new type of "open systems": instead of applying openness to a standardization process we now require the running systems to become open for foreign code. The questio... / each having ten to thousand mobile agents roaming around. In such a br on the impractical identity of mobile agents. And second we want resource
16 Agent Tcl - Gray, al. (1995)(Correct)
stem --- e.g., a set of text-processing commands can be made available to all
agents at a particular site.
Migration is accomplished with the agent jump command, which can appear
anywhere within an a... / Rus and George Cybenko. Mobile agents for mobile computing. br Agent Tcl A flexible and secure mobile-agent system. In Mark Diekhans and
15 Approaches to winner determination in combinatorial auctions - Sandholm(Correct)
Combinatorial auctions, i.e. auctions where bidders can bid on combinations of
items, tend to lead to more efficient allocations than traditional auctions in multiitem
auctions where the agents' valua... / pricequantity graphs and by mobile agents. Keywords Combinatorial br price-quantity graphs and by mobile agents. Price-quantity graphs are
15 Environmental Key Generation towards Clueless Agents - Riordan(Correct)
In this paper, we introduce a collection of cryptographic key
constructions built from environmental data that are resistant to adversarial
analysis and deceit. We expound upon their properties an... / is in the creation of mobile agents whose analysis does not reveal br seen and most problematic in mobile agents. Mobile agents by nature
14 A Protection Scheme for Mobile Agents on Java - Hagimont, Ismail (1997)(Correct)
This paper describes a protection scheme for mobile agents
implemented on a Java environment.
In this scheme, access to objects is controlled by means of software
capabilities that can be exchanged ... / A Protection Scheme for Mobile Agents on Java D. Hagimont br a protection scheme for mobile agents implemented on a Java
14 Network Management using Internet Technologies - Barillaud, Deri, Feridun (1997)(Correct)
As networks grow in size, speed and flexibility, the role of network management becomes
increasingly important. Recent developments in Internet technologies might provide the capabilities
that are wel... / how the integration of Java with mobile agent technology allow us to create a br and robust operation. Mobile agents are programs that can be
14 The Ponder Policy Specification Language - Damianou, Dulay, Lupu, Sloman (2001)(Correct)
The Ponder language provides a common means of
speciing security policies that map onto various access
control implementation mechanisms for firewalls,
operating systems, databases and Java. It suppor... / for example active networks mobile agents and management by delegation. br in Mobile Code Systems in Mobile Agents and Security G. Vigna
13 eMediator: a Next Generation Electronic Commerce Server - Sandholm (1999)(Correct)
eMediator, anextgeneration electronic commerceserver, demonstrates ways in which AI, algorithmic support, game theoretic incentive engineering, and GUI design can jointly improve the efficiency of eco... / price-quantity graphs and by mobile agents. . Combinatorial auctions br parameters. . NOMAD Mobile agents in auctions Our auction
13 Location Independence for Mobile Agents - Sewell (1998)(Correct)
this paper we study the first of these, considering the design, semantic definition and implementation
of communication primitives by which mobile agents can interact.
Communication primitives can be ... / Location Independence for Mobile Agents Peter Sewell Pawe l T. br such applications is that of mobile agents i.e. units of executing code
13 Reliable Communication for Highly Mobile Agents - Murphy, Picco (1999)(Correct)
The provision of a reliable communication infrastructure for mobile agents is still an
open research issue. The challenge to reliability does not come only from the possibility
of faults, but is the p... / Communication for Highly Mobile Agents Amy L. Murphy Gian Pietro br Communication for Highly Mobile Agents Amy L. Murphy and Gian
13 An Overview of Mobile Agent Programming - Knabe (1996)(Correct)
Mobile agents are code-containing objects that may be transmitted between
communicating participants in a distributed system. Compared to systems
that only allow the exchange of nonexecutable data, ... / An Overview of Mobile Agent Programming Frederick Knabe br Santiago Chile Abstract. Mobile agents are code-containing objects
13 Discrete Event Systems for Autonomous Mobile Agents - Kosecka, Bajcsy (1993)(Correct)
Discrete Event Systems (DES) are a special type of dynamic system. The "state" of these systems
change at discrete instants in time and the term "event" represents the occurrence of discontinuous
chan... / Event Systems for Autonomous Mobile Agents Jana Koseck'a and Ruzena br to modeling behaviors of mobile agents. We then describe vision
13 Mobile agents in distributed information retrieval - Brewington, Gray, Moizumi, Kotz.. (1999)(Correct)
A mobile agent is an executing program that can migrate during execution from machine to machine in
a heterogeneous network. On each machine, the agent interacts with stationary service agents and oth... / Mobile agents in distributed information br Abstract A mobile agent is an executing program that
13 Towards a Calculus of Secure Mobile Computations - Vitek, Castagna (1998)(Correct)
The Seal calculus is a calculus of mobile computations
designed for programming secure distributed
applications over large scale open networks. The calculus
is a distributed variant of the ß-calculus ... / Host attacks one or more mobile agents mount a concerted effort to br Cardelli and Gordon and the mobile agents of a detailed comparison
12 Software Agents: A review - Green, Hurst, Nangle, Cunningham.. (1997)(Correct)
this document.
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12 First-Order Axioms for Asynchrony - Selinger (1997)(Correct)
We study properties of asynchronous communication independently of
any concrete concurrent process paradigm. We give a general-purpose, mathematically
rigorous definition of several notions of async... / and Gonthier as a calculus of mobile agents in distributed networks with br and D. Remy. A calculus of mobile agents. In CONCUR Springer
12 Nomadic Pict: Language and Infrastructure Design for Mobile.. - Tomasz (1999)(Correct)
Mobile agents | units of executing computation that can migrate between
machines | are likely to become an important enabling technology for future
distributed systems. We study the distributed infras... / ii Abstract Mobile agents units of executing br and Infrastructure Design for Mobile Agents. In IEEE Concurrency. The
12 Nomadic Pict: Language and Infrastructure Design for Mobile Agents - Wojciechowski, Sewell (1999)(Correct)
We study the distributed infrastructures required for
location-independent communication between migrating
agents. These infrastructures are problematic: different applications
may have very different... / and Infrastructure Design for Mobile Agents Pawel T. Wojciechowski br and runtime. Introduction Mobile agents units of executing
12 Pickling threads state in the Java system - Bouchenak, Hagimont (2000)(Correct)
Today, distributed object-based computing is closely linked with Java. The
Java virtual machine is ported to most current operating systems and
provides many services which help developing distribut... / led to the development of mobile agent systems whose main advantage br consequence is that most of the mobile agent systems implemented on top of
11 Autonomous and Adaptive Agents that Gather Information - Rus, Gray, Kotz (1996)(Correct)
We have designed and implemented autonomous software agents. Our agents are programs
that can move independently through a heterogeneous network of computers. They can sense
the state of the network, ... / location. Our work on using mobile agents for mobile computing is br making is critical for a mobile agent to adapt to a dynamic
11 A Security Model For Aglets - Karjoth, Lange, Oshima (1997)(Correct)
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11 Garbage Collection on an Open Network - Fuchs (1995)(Correct)
We present a distributed garbage collection algorithm that eventually collects all cycles in an open network. As with recent reference counting algorithms, it explicitly maintain the distributed inv... /
10 Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks - Minar, Kramer, Maes (1999)(Correct)
Contemporary computer networks are heterogeneous; even a single network consists of many kinds of processors and communications channels. But few programming tools embrace, or even acknowledge, this... / Cooperating Mobile Agents for Mapping Networks Nelson br The growing field of mobile agents research seeks to address
10 A Cooperative Approach to Support Software Deployment Using the.. - Hall, Heimbigner, Wolf (1999)(Correct)
Software deployment is an evolving collection of interrelated
processes such as release, install, adapt, reconfigure,
update, activate, deactivate, remove, and retire. The connectivity
of large networ... / Software deployment Java mobile agents configuration management br solution discussed thus far. Mobile agents cause a large security concern
10 Security in the Ajanta Mobile Agent System - Karnik (1999)(Correct)
This paper describes the security architecture of
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Department of Computer Science, Uni... / Security in the Ajanta Mobile Agent System NEERAN M. KARNIK br MN SUMMARY A mobile agent is an object that which can
10 The JavaSeal Mobile Agent Kernel - Bryce, Vitek (1999)(Correct)
JavaSeal is a secure mobile agent kernel that provides
a small set of abstractions for constructing agent applications.
This paper describes the design of these abstractions
and their implementation. ... / The JavaSeal Mobile Agent Kernel Ciaran Bryce Centre br Abstract JavaSeal is a secure mobile agent kernel that provides a small
10 Autonomous Norm-acceptance - Conte, Castelfranchi, Dignum (1999)(Correct)
The acquisition of new goals: the case of norms
It is generally acknowledged that norms and normative action emphasise
autonomy on the side of decision. But what about the autonomous formation
of nor... / Software assistants mobile agents are intended to act as virtual
10 Building Systems that Flexibly Control Downloaded Executable Context - Jaeger, Prakash (1996)(Correct)
Downloading executable content, which enables
principals to run programs from remote sites, is a
key technology in a number of emerging applications,
including collaborative systems, electronic commer... / systems architectures such as mobile agent and replicated process br For example consider the mobile agent architecture also known as
9 An Infrastructure For Mobile Agents: Requirements And Architecture - Lingnau, Drobnik (1995)(Correct)
Mobile agents constitute a new approach to the architecture and implementation of distributed systems. A mobile agent is a program with a persistent identity which moves around a network and can commu... / An Infrastructure For Mobile Agents Requirements And br Mobility Tcp Abstract Mobile Agents Constitute A New Approach To
9 Strategically Mobile Agents - Chia, Kannapan (1996)(Correct)
To realize its promise of providing scaleable and optimal use of network resources, mobile agent
technology must be integrated with non-mobile architectures (e.g., client-server) while taking into
acc... / Strategically Mobile Agents Teck-How Chia Department br use of network resources mobile agent technology must be integrated
9 Designing a Videoconference System for Active Networks - Baldi, Picco, Risso(Correct)
Active networks are receiving increasing attention due to
their promises of great flexibility in tailoring services to applications. This
capability stems from the exploitation of network devices wh... / mobile code community calls a mobile agent-an autonomous unit of br thus actually implementing a mobile agent. At each node the capsule
9 Agent Groups in Mobile Agent Systems - Baumann, Radouniklis (1997)(Correct)
One of the key arguments for mobile agent systems is the flexible usage of groups of
agents. However, none of the existing mobile agent systems supports agent groups.
In this paper we introduce our mo... / Agent Groups in Mobile Agent Systems J. Baumann N. br One of the key arguments for mobile agent systems is the flexible usage
9 Intelligent Agents for Intrusion Detection - Helmer, Wong, Honavar, Miller (1998)(Correct)
This paper focuses on intrusion detection and
countermeasures with respect to widely-used
operating systems and networks. The design and
architecture of an intrusion detection system built
from distri... / collaborative information and mobile agent technologies is br data at the sources by using mobile agents Have agents collaborate
9 Caltech Infospheres Project Overview: Information Infrastructures for .. - Mani Chandy (1996)(Correct)
ions for sessions as objects. Abstractions for patterns of sessions.
2. Abstractions for synchronizing between sessions. We will extend the abstractions and theory
of concurrent threads sharing an add... / Tcl work GCKR on secure mobile agents and the TACOMA work JvRS br on operating system support for mobile agents Also much work is currently
9 On the Problem of Trust in Mobile Agent Systems - Wilhelm, Staamann, Buttyán (1998)(Correct)
Systems that support mobile agents are increasingly being used on the global Internet. Security concerns dealing with the protection of the execution environment from malicious agents are extensively ... / On the Problem of Trust in Mobile Agent Systems Uwe G. Wilhelm br Abstract Systems that support mobile agents are increasingly being used
8 Locating Objects in Mobile Computing - Pitoura, Samaras(Correct)
In current distributed systems, the notion of mobility is emerging in many forms
and applications. Mobility arises naturally in wireless computing, since the location of
users changes as they move. Be... / in wireless computing software mobile agents are another popular form of br such form of mobile software. Mobile agents are processes that may be
8 Connection Management using Adaptive Mobile Agents - White, Pagurek, Oppacher (1998)(Correct)
This paper describes how adaptive mobile agents
can be used to solve connection management
problems in Telecommunications. These agents
have behavior that is inspired by the foraging
activities of ant... / Management using Adaptive Mobile Agents Tony White Bernard Pagurek br paper describes how adaptive mobile agents can be used to solve
8 Detecting Attacks on Mobile Agents - Meadows (1997)(Correct)
ot been corrupted. In order
for a detection object to work, it is necessary that users of the database (who include the potential malicious
corrupters of data) not be aware which are the detection obj... / Detecting Attacks on Mobile Agents Catherine Meadows Center br any information belonging to a mobile agent is completely available to its
8 Mobile Agents - Rothermel, Schwehm (1998)(Correct)
This article proceeds with an introduction to basic concepts of mobile agents like agent mobility, agent types and places and agent communication. Then benefits of the usage of mobile agents are summa... / accepted For Publication Mobile Agents Kurt Rothermel Markus br of data and computation. These mobile agents can be classified according
7 Distributed Fault Location in Networks Using Mobile Agents - White, Bieszczad, Pagurek(Correct)
This paper describes how multiple interacting swarms of adaptive
mobile agents can be used to locate faults in networks. The paper proposes the
use of distributed problem solving using mobile agents... / Location in Networks Using Mobile Agents Tony White Andrzej br interacting swarms of adaptive mobile agents can be used to locate faults
7 Mobile Agents - Smart Messages - Hurst, Cunningham, Somers (1997)(Correct)
Wireless communication with Mobile Computing devices is known to be
problematic. It is very different in character from conventional communication over wired
networks. Since many distributed applica... / Mobile Agents -Smart Messages Leon br and implement them using Mobile Agents. The metaphor we use is of a
7 The Problem of Signal and Symbol Integration: A Study of Cooperative.. - Bajcsy, Kosecka (1995)(Correct)
This paper explores and reasons about the interplay between symbolic and continuous representations. We first provide some historical perspective on the signal and symbol integration as viewed by th... / from the domain of cooperating mobile agents involved in tasks of br from the domain of cooperative mobile agents engaged in navigation and
7 Agent Server Architecture for the Ajanta Mobile-Agent System - Neeran Karnik (1998)(Correct)
This paper provides an overview of Ajanta, a
Java-based mobile-agent system, and focuses in particular
on the architecture of the agent server --
the process which hosts agents and enables them to
acc... / Architecture for the Ajanta Mobile-Agent System Neeran M. Karnik and br of Ajanta a Java-based mobile-agent system and focuses in
7 Utility Driven Mobile-Agent Scheduling - Bredin, Kotz, Rus (1998)(Correct)
Mobile agents are programs capable of migrating from one host
machine to another. We propose that mobile agents purchase resource
access rights from host machines thereby establishing a market
for com... / Utility Driven Mobile-Agent Scheduling Dartmouth Technical br October Abstract Mobile agents are programs capable of
7 Survey of Theories for Mobile Agents - Serugendo, Muhugusa, Tschudin, Harms (1996)(Correct)
This paper investigates existing formalisms related to one or more features
of the messenger paradigm: mobile processes, distributed processes,
agents, communication through shared memory. A summary o... / Survey of Theories for Mobile Agents Giovanna Di Marzo br . . Application to Mobile Agents Messengers .
7 Communication of Inductive Inference - Davies (1999)(Correct)
Introduction
The "software agent" metaphor has become increasingly commonplace in the software
world over the last few years. The term "agent" has its origins in traditional AI research,
but it has b... / information sources Mobile Agents Programs that can travel
7 An Immunological Model of Distributed Detection and Its Application.. - Hofmeyr (1999)(Correct)
This dissertation explores an immunological model of distributed detection, called negative detection,
and studies its performance in the domain of intrusion detection on computer networks. The goal o... / . . . Mobile Agents . br has the potential to be useful mobile agent frameworks and a certain form
7 TouringMachines: Autonomous Agents with Attitudes - Ferguson (1992)(Correct)
It is becoming widely accepted that neither purely reactive nor purely deliberative control techniques are capable of producing the range of behaviours required of intelligent robotic agents in dynami... / for controlling autonomous mobile agents -building on previous work br for controlling autonomous mobile agents or TouringMachines which
7 A Survey of Theories for Mobile Agents - Serugendo, Muhugusa, al. (1995)(Correct)
This paper presents a comparative survey of formalisms related to mobile agents. It describes the -calculus
and its extensions, the Ambient calculus, Petri nets, Actors, and the family of generative c... / A Survey of Theories for Mobile Agents Giovanna Di Marzo br survey of formalisms related to mobile agents. It describes the calculus
7 A Performance Evaluation of the Mobile Agent Paradigm - Ismail, Hagimont (1999)(Correct)
This paper presents a performance evaluation of the mobile agent
paradigm in comparison to the client/server paradigm. This
evaluation has been conducted on top of the Java environment,
using respecti... / A Performance Evaluation of the Mobile Agent Paradigm L. Ismail br a performance evaluation of the mobile agent paradigm in comparison to the
7 The Communication of Inductive Inferences - Davies (1997)(Correct)
We propose a new approach to communication between agents that
perform inductive inference. Consider a community of agents where each agent has a
limited view of the overall world. When an agent in th... /
7 Cooperative Material Handling by Human and Robotic Agents: Module.. - Adams, Bajcsy, Kosecka, Kumar.. (1995)(Correct)
this paper we present the results of a collaborative effort to design and implement a system for cooperative material
handling by a small team of human and robotic agents in an unstructured indoor env... / Continuing localization of mobile agents during execution of a task is br With this scheme the two mobile agents are more loosely coupled than
6 Agent Cloning: An Approach to Agent Mobility and Resource Allocation - Shehory (1998)(Correct)
Multi-agent systems (MAS) are subject to performance bottlenecks in cases where agents cannot perform tasks by themselves due to insufficient resources. Solutions to such problems include passing task... / the recently emerging field of mobile agents A main difference between br the remote machine similar to a mobile agent or creating and
6 Mobile Agents for Adaptive Routing - Di Caro, Dorigo (1998)(Correct)
This paper introduces AntNet, a new routing algorithm for telecommunication networks. AntNet is an adaptive, distributed, mobile-agents-based algorithm which was inspired by recent work on the ant col... / Mobile Agents for Adaptive Routing Gianni br is an adaptive distributed mobile-agents-based algorithm which was
6 AntNet: A Mobile Agents Approach to Adaptive Routing - Di Caro, Dorigo (1997)(Correct)
This paper introduces AntNet, a new routing algorithm for communications networks.
AntNet is an adaptive, distributed, mobile-agents-based algorithm which was inspired by
recent work on the ant colon... / AntNet A Mobile Agents Approach to Adaptive Routing br is an adaptive distributed mobile-agents-based algorithm which was
6 Global/Local Subtyping and Capability Inference for a Distributed pi.. - Sewell (1998)(Correct)
This paper considers how locality restrictions on the use of capabilities can be enforced
by a static type system. A distributed ß-calculus with a simple reduction semantics
is introduced, integrating... / as an idealisation of a mobile agent programming language. It is br domains that arise in mobile agent programming. It builds on the
6 Forward Integrity For Secure Audit Logs - Bellare, Yee (1997)(Correct)
In this paper, we define the forward integrity security property, motivate its appropriateness
as a systems security requirement, and demonstrate designs that achieve this property. Applications
inclu... / results of computation for mobile agents. We prove security theorems br software agent security. In mobile agent systems a software entity
6 Knowbot programming: System support for mobile agents - Hylton, Manheimer, Jr., Warsaw.. (1996)(Correct)
Knowbot Programs are mobile agents intended for
use in widely distributed systems like the Internet. We
describe our experiences implementing security, process
migration, and inter-process communicati... / programming System support for mobile agents Jeremy Hylton Ken br Abstract Knowbot Programs are mobile agents intended for use in widely
6 Introducing Trusted Third Parties to the Mobile Agent Paradigm - Wilhelm, Staamann, Buttyán (1999)(Correct)
The mobile agent paradigm gains ever more acceptance for the creation of distributed applications, particularly in the domain of electronic commerce. In such applications, a mobile agent roams the glo... / Trusted Third Parties to the Mobile Agent Paradigm Uwe G. Wilhelm br Abstract. The mobile agent paradigm gains ever more
6 Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database Access - Papastavrou, Samaras, Pitoura(Correct)
The popularity of the web as a universal access mechanism for
network information has created the need for developing webbased
DBMS client/server applications. However, the current
commercial applet-b... / Mobile Agents for WWW Distributed Database br systems based on Java-based mobile agents. The framework supports
6 An Agent-based Approach to Service Management - Towards Service.. - Hjálmtýsson, Jain (1997)(Correct)
With deregulation of the telecom industry the intense competition for customers is driving service providers to offer new and sophisticated services at an increasing rate. Simultaneously, the Internet... / proposing the use of mobile agents to dynamically change network br Old Telephony Service . Mobile Agents Enhance Service Management
6 Mobile Agent Platforms for Web Databases: A Qualitative and.. - Samaras (1999)(Correct)
In this paper we present practical experiences gathered
from the employment of two popular Java-based
mobile-agent platforms, IBM's Aglets and Mitsubishi's
Concordia. We present some basic distributed... / of ASAMA' pp. - . Mobile Agent Platforms for Web Databases A br of two popular Java-based mobile-agent platforms IBM's Aglets and
6 An Actor-based Architecture for Customizing and Controlling Agent.. - Jamali, Thati, Agha (1999)(Correct)
been examples where outcomes of collections of autonomous processes have resulted in this kind of phenomena. For instance, a Haitian ferry sank last September as the passengers rushed to one side to d... / represented by autonomous mobile agents. Individual users of the br for collaborating mobile agents. In K. Rothermel and R.
6 Integration of Mobile agents with SNMP: Why and How - Pagurek, Wang, White (2000)(Correct)
Mobile agents have been proposed as a solution to the problem of the management of increasingly heterogeneous networks. However, the proposed solutions often ignore the value of legacy solutions and p... / Integration of Mobile agents with SNMP Why and How B. br Abstract Mobile agents have been proposed as a
6 Mobile Agents In Intrusion Detection And Response - Jansen, Mell, Karygiannis, Marks (2000)(Correct)
Effective intrusion detection capability is an elusive goal, not solved easily or with a single mechanism.
However, mobile software agents go a long way toward realizing the ideal behavior desired in ... / Mobile Agents In Intrusion Detection br unexplored terrain of using mobile agents for intrusion detection and
6 Techniques for the Design of Java Operating Systems - Back, Tullmann, Stoller, Hsieh.. (2000)(Correct)
Language-basedextensible systems, such as Java Virtual
Machines and SPIN, use type safety to provide memory
safety in a single address space. By using software
to provide safety, they can support more... / servlets in servers and mobile agents. All of these environments br such as Servlet Engines and mobile agent servers need to support
6 A Mobile Agent Architecture for Distributed Information Management - Dale, DeRoure (1997)(Correct)
this paper, we present an architecture that supports mobile agents which carry out distributed
information management tasks to help the user discover, create, maintain and integrate information
which ... / And Computer Science A Mobile Agent Architecture For Distributed br Presented at VIM' A Mobile Agent Architecture for Distributed
6 Typed Mobile Objects - Bugliesi, Castagna, Crafa (2000)(Correct)
We describe a general model for embedding object-oriented constructs
into calculi of mobile agents. The model results from extending agents with methods
and primitives for message passing. We then... / constructs into calculi of mobile agents. The model results from br Introduction Calculi of mobile agents are receiving increasing
6 Decentralized SNMP Management with Mobile Agents - Zapf, Herrman, Geihs (1999)(Correct)
The mobile agent paradigm can be employed effectively for the decentralized management
of complex networks. Nevertheless, legacy management protocols such as
SNMP need to be supported for reasons of m... / SNMP Management with Mobile Agents br Abstract The mobile agent paradigm can be employed
6 Domain-Specific Languages: An Annotated Bibliography - van Deursen, Klint, Visser (2000)(Correct)
We survey the literature available on the topic of
domain-specific languages as used for the construction and
maintenance of software systems. We list a selection of 75
key publications in the area, a... / Simulation mobile agents robot control br an extension of Tcl for mobile agents. S. Z. Guyer and C.
6 On Conversation Policies and the Need for Exceptions - Scott Moore University (1999)(Correct)
The author describes a system for defining conversation
policies that allows conversants to exchange explicit
representations of how they use messages to get things
done. This system allows convers... / researchers of mobile and non-mobile agents even mean different things br to agent interoperability. For mobile agents it means being able to make
5 Learning user interests across heterogeneous document databases - Krulwich (1995)(Correct)
This paper discusses an intelligent agent that learns to
identify documents of interest to particular users, in a
distributed and dynamic database environment with
databases consisting of mail message... / that address the notion of mobile agents moving around a network in
5 An Overview of the Design of Distributed Oz - Haridi, Van Roy, Smolka (1997)(Correct)
We present a design for a distributed programming system, Distributed Oz, that abstracts away the network. This means that all network operations are invoked implicitly by the system as an incidental ... / models stationary servers and mobile agents as facets of the same concept
5 Mobile Agent Planning Problems - Moizumi (1998)(Correct)
Mobile agents have received much attention recently as a way to efficiently access distributed resources
in a low bandwidth network. Planning allows mobile agents to make the best use of the
available... / Mobile Agent Planning Problems A Thesis br Seiichi Moizumi Abstract Mobile agents have received much attention