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....[12, 13] their roaming capabilities allow them to move across networks in order to achieve specific, pre defined tasks. However, the applicability of mobile agents is bound by security concerns; 6] and [24] discuss these aspects. The OMG Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility (MASIF) [10] specifies an infrastructure for mobile agents in a CORBA [3] environment. Mobile management agents are designed to achieve administrative tasks on systems and software; while [1] discusses the advantages of applying mobile agents to management, 4] presents a Java based environment for ....

Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification. OMG TC Document orbos/98-03-09, Object Management Group, March 1998.

....of agents for open CORBA based management of ATM switches. However, the mechanisms for transferring management services between management systems are yet unsatisfactory. We are now working on the following issues: The deployment of the OMG Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facility (MASIF) [19] to provide facilities for CORBA based mobile management agents. The evaluation of the Java Dynamic Management Kit (JDMK) 8] to support the delegation of management functionality at runtime in Java CORBA based environments. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author wishes to thank the members of the Munich ....

Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification. OMG TC Document orbos/97-10-05, Object Management Group, November 1997.

....(MASA) 5] as our development and runtime environment. Basically, MASA can be separated into Agents providing a specific functionality and into the Agent System which provides the runtime environment for the Agents. MASA is completely written using Java CORBA [3] and offers, as an MASIF [18] compliant agent system, several basic services like naming, notification and security. Additionally, to increase reliability of agents, a load balancing on basis of agent migration is possible. Following the design decisions described above, the accounting management system consists of two agents ....

Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification. OMG TC Document orbos/98-03-09, Object Management Group, March 1998.

....to be conveyed along with the agent s code during relocation. The mobile agent systems under discussion in this paper involve the relocation of both code and state information. Agent Model A number of models exist for describing agent systems for comparative [1] or standardization purposes [5, 6]. However, for discussing security issues it is sufficient to use a very simple one, consisting of only two main components: the agent and the agent platform. Here, an agent comprises the code and state information needed to carry out some computation. As mentioned earlier, the computation is ....

"Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification," Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Committee (TC) Document orbos/97-10-05, November 1997 <URL: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Technology_Adoptions.html #tbl_MOF_Specification

....[12, 13] their roaming capabilities allow them to move across networks in order to achieve specific, pre defined tasks. However, the applicability of mobile agents is bound by security concerns; 6] and [24] discuss these aspects. The OMG Mobile Agent Systems Interoperability Facility (MASIF) [10] specifies an infrastructure for mobile agents in a CORBA [3] environment. Mobile management agents are designed to achieve administrative tasks on systems and software; while [1] discusses the advantages of applying mobile agents to management, 4] presents a Java based environment for ....

Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification. OMG TC Document orbos/98-03-09, Object Management Group, March 1998.

....mobile agent paradigm are due to the fact that, contrary to the usual situation in computer security where the owner of the application and the operator of the computer system are the same, the agent s owner and system s operator are different. A number of models exist for describing agent systems [2, 19, 34], however, for discussing security issues it is sufficient to use a very simple one, consisting of only two main components: the agent and the agent platform. An agent comprises the code and state information needed to carry out some computation. Multiple agents cooperate with one another to carry ....

Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification, Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Committee (TC) Document orbos/97-10-05, November 1997. <URL: http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/ Technology_Adoptions.html#tbl_MOF_Specification>

....an RPC type mechanism. Such hosts, i.e. the execution environments, come with many names, but we will use the term mobile agent platform to refer to them. A potential problem arises from the fact that not all platforms for mobile agents are the same. The Mobile Agent Facility (MAF) proposal [7] is an attempt to standardize this execution environment. The proposal was still under investigation by the Object Management Group (OMG) as of the end of 1997. Although MAF has gained some momentum within the community, there seems to be quite a variety of mobile agents platforms coming from ....

"Mobile Agent Facility (Joint Submission)," Object Management Group, Boston 1997.

....in the past (e.g. executing any code from an unknown source either downloaded from a network or supplied on floppy disk) Mobile agents simply offer a greater opportunity for abuse and misuse, broadening the scale of threats significantly. A number of models exist for describing agent systems [2, 6, 7]; however, for discussing security issues it is sufficient to use a very simple one, consisting of only two main components: the agent and the agent platform. Here, an agent is comprised of the code and state information needed to carry out some computation. Mobility allows an agent to move, or ....

"Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification," Object Management Group (OMG) Technical Committee (TC) Document orbos/97-1005, November 1997. Technology_Adoptions.html#tbl_MOF_Specification>

....a focus of the DAI research has been to provide the abstractions and tools necessary to develop agents. We will call a system providing such linguistic and system level support an agent architecture. One of the earliest testbeds for building agent architectures was provided by the MACE system [12], which executed in a distributed memory multiprocessing environment. Based on the experience of this research, Les Gasser [13] outlined the avenues of cooperation between the areas of DAI and concurrent programming, and how the two elds can be brought closer to each other. The current proposal ....

9 References 33 Agent Facility Specication. Technical report, Object Management Group, June 1997.

....While residing on a particular host, mobile agents might have limited interaction (communication) with other agents on the host through an RPC type mechanism. A potential problem arises from the fact that not all platforms for mobile agents are the same. The Mobile Agent Facility (MAF) proposal [16], which was subsequently replaced by MASIF [23, 24] is an attempt to standardize some aspects of this execution environment. The proposal was still under investigation by the Object Management Group (OMG) as of the mid 1998. MASIF is a collection of definitions and interfaces that provides an ....

O. M. Group. Mobile agent facility (joint submission). Technical report, Object Management Group, 1997.

....to communicate with otherwise unmanaged equipment. The Java Dynamic Management Kit (JDMK) in its current version includes an SNMP agent toolkit and may provide OMG IDL interfaces for Java classes in the future; ffl The mobile agent paradigm as described in the OMG Mobile Agent Facility [9] can simplify management tasks in many ways. For instance, CORBA Javabased mobile agents can resolve software installation problems by allowing on demand downloading of appropriate management instrumentation from a central location. Java also allows easy modification of agentside software a ....

"Mobile Agent System Interoperability Facilities Specification, " Document, Object Management Group, May 1997.

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